The First Salute (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Wertheim
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Principally 1770-1781
- Setting: The American colonies, England, and the West Indies
- Principal Characters: Sir George Brydges Rodney, General George Washington, Johannes De Graaff, General Charles Cornwallis, Admiral François Joseph Paul De Grasse
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Colonies or colonization, Leadership, Revolutions, American Revolution, War, Eighteenth century, Armies, Battles, Diplomacy or diplomats, Navies
- Locales: England, West Indies, American colonies
When one picks up a book about the American Revolution, one usually expects the action to begin in 1775, with the first encounter of American Minutemen against British forces at Lexington, Massachusetts. Perhaps the narrative will start a bit earlier, in Boston Commons, where an angry crowd confronted British soldiers who killed Crispus Attucks in the ensuing melee; or the first scene may be played out in that city's harbor, where angry colonists tossed bales of tea into the sea to protest unfair taxation. The opening paragraphs of such a study could well be set in the Virginia...
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