The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775

At four in the morning on April 19, 1975, a line of British soldiers stared across the village green of Lexington, Massachusetts, at a crowd of seventy-seven Amercican militiamen. A shot rang out, and the Redcoats replied with a devastating volley.

But the day that started so well for the king's troops would end in catastrophe: seventy-three British soldiers dead, two hundred wounded, and the survivors chased back into Boston by the angry colonists. Drawing on diaries, letters, official documents, and memoirs, William H. Hallahan vividly captures the drama of those tense twenty-four hours and shows how they decided the fate of two nations.

Author: William H. Hallahan
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 04/10/2001
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780380796052
ISBN10: 0380796058
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- History | Military | Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also Unit
- History | Military | United States