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    Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began

    By Don Brown

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    The first book in Don Brown's Actual Times series brings the start of the American Revolution to life.

    A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial turmoil after crushing the French, Austrians, and Spanish in battle. Luckily money was no object since he could easily get it back by raising taxes on his American colonies...but what King George didn't realize was the colonies were beginning to have a mind of their own and had started to set their sights on freedom.

    The cast of characters includes those we know--the famous silversmith, turned messenger, Paul Revere--and many we haven't heard of like "Flinty Whittemore," a 78-year-old who fought off the British with a musket, two pistols, a sword, was bayoneted 14 times and still lived another 18 years to brag about it.

    Detailed, yet accessible, Don Brown's award-winning nonfiction style brilliantly comes to life in Let It Begin Here, this fascinating account of the start of the Revolutionary War.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 31, 2010
    ISBN9781466811454
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    Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began
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    Don Brown

    Don Brown is the author of Thunder in the Morning Calm, The Malacca Conspiracy, The Navy Justice Series, and The Black Sea Affair, a submarine thriller that predicted the 2008 shooting war between Russia and Georgia. Don served five years in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, which gave him an exceptional vantage point into both the Navy and the inner workings "inside-the-beltway" as an action officer assigned to the Pentagon. He left active duty in 1992 to pursue private practice, but remained on inactive status through 1999, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He and his family live in North Carolina, where he pursues his passion for penning novels about the Navy. www.donbrownbooks.com Facebook: Don-Brown  

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    • 5/5
      This is history you may have missed ... did you know that first day of the revolution, a small group of British soldiers surrendered to an old woman?
    • 4/5
      Children's author and artist Don Brown, whose many works of non-fiction for younger readers include biographies such as Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa and histories like Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, turns in this slender volume to the subject of the American Revolution. Specifically, to the battles of Lexington and Concord, which heralded the beginning of that conflict. After setting the scene with some background, Brown describes the British march from Boston, the initial "shot heard round the world," and the resulting fighting on that April day in 1775. He describes a number of well-known and more obscure incidents, and concludes with a discussion of what happened to some of the people mentioned in the text. A bibliography is included at the rear...Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began is the second book from Brown's Actual Times series that I have read, following upon his America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell. This series is meant to highlight momentous days in history, days which altered the course of human events, and changed the world. April 19, 1775 is certainly one such day, and Brown captures the excitement and chaos that unfolded as the British met with the first real armed resistance in their conflict with the American colonists. Some of the stories here were unknown to me - the surrender of a group of Redcoats to the elderly Mother Batherick, the part played by seventy-eight-year-old Samuel Whittemore, who survived habing half his face shot off and being bayoneted fourteen times - while others, such as the ride of Paul Revere, were already familiar. On the whole I enjoyed the book, and think it would make an excellent addition to a study unit on the American Revolution. I would recommend it for that purpose, as well as for the young reader interested in history. For my part, I intend to read more in the Actual Times series.
    • 3/5
      A simple re-telling of the events that occurred on the first day of the American Revolution. It is not particularly compelling reading, but wth minimal pages, and many water-color and pencil illustrations, this is a suitable book for younger readers - grades 4-6. Brown makes good use of quotations whenever possible. Overall, an attractive and accurate account.