The author approaches the events leading up to the beginning of the American Revolution to show our ancestors as they were and the conditions as they met them. Hence, this book will illustrate how the tactics and weapons of 1775, so different from our own, affected the events of the Nineteenth of April 1775. These two battles are treated in such a way as to show the development of the people, and to place these events in their proper economic and social conditions. War is in itself an economic and social fact of overwhelming importance, and can never be relegated to insignificance. 295 pages
