The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War
J. L. Bell, "The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War "
English | ISBN: 1594162492 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1594162492 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
With a Clash Between American Rebels and Royal Authorities Heating Up, Radicals Smuggled Cannon Out of Boston—and the British Came Looking for Them
In the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Boston’s colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New England’s growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts Patriots, meanwhile, prepared to thwart the general’s mission. There was one goal Gage and his enemies shared: for different reasons, they all wanted to keep the stolen cannon as secret as possible. Both sides succeeded well enough that the full story has never appeared until now.
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