Monday, September 12, 2005

1776 by David McCullough


Did you know we came very close to losing the American Revolution? Several times, the army, under George Washington, had to flee from a battlefield under cover of darkness. Supplies were few and the "rebels" were fighting a powerful and well provisioned army. Thanks to some good luck and inspiring leadership by a relatively inexperienced general named Washington, 1776 became a year of beginnings rather than endings.

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