The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

by J.L. Bell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594162492
• ISBN13: 9781594162497
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A tough book to get through

Much-too-much data, names, dates, minor players, trivia, etc. that results in a dismal story that just does not seem to be going anywhere. And then at the end, "is that all there is?!" It could have been condensed into a pamphlet. The Lexington and Concord battles are not the focus of this book and are hardly mentioned. A very tiresome book that may have been intended for the professional Revolutionary War historian and certainly not for the casual reader. Pass on this one.