1776 by David McCullough

With the stand by of some extensive query through both American and British documentations, 1776, by David McCullough, is a powerful literary play written with amazingly descriptive vigor. It is the story of fellow Americans in the ranks. The American troops rally from many different backgrounds. hands of e real shape, size, and color joined. in that location were also schoolteachers, farmers, no-accounts, shoe hastenrs, and young deficient boys turned into s olderiers. 1776 is also a story about the Kings men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly well-organized soldiers, whom were called redcoats, looked on their mutinous opponents with disdain and fought with an honor that it non recognized enough. However it is the American Commander who is given nitty-gritty recognition and props for American victory.\nGeneral and future world-class president George Washington, who had never in the first place led an army into fighting, is the of import focus of this n ovel of American triumph. At the center of it all, with Washington, were twain young American patriots, whose moreover knowledge, at first, of war was the training acquired from the books they have read. The first patriot was a boy named Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was appointed usual at thirty-three age old, and the other was Henry Knox, a twenty-five year old bookseller who came up with the ludicrous mood of transporting the weapons from Fort Ticonderoga, over farming all the way to capital of Massachusetts in the middle of the very unforgiving winter.\nThe action in the novel starts off with the battle of Bunker Hill, where the Americans undergo a loss by the British, but however managed to cause thousands of British casualties. The Americans recover from the defeat and make an attempt to attack on Boston where the British soldiers argon caught by surprise. Luckily, The British quash to Great Britain on their ships and forswear to Washingtons army. The American spir it was at an all-time high at this point and Commander Washingto...