1776 by David McCullough

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Book review : 1776 by David McCullough

Thesis statement

The year 1776 was the year of battle for the revolutionary war . Great Britain had abandoned slavery many years ago but the revolutionaries had not stopped up until 1862 when they decided to stop it

Book summary

The book talks of the revolution in the good year 1776 . It was a year that was well started with the barefoot boys and men who came to the farm and the streets to become an army of

provincials . According McCullough (1 , the old men and the little boys were playing the fife and drum . After chasing the red cots from Boston , later the rag tag revolutionaries of British subjects who had few guns were chased from New York . The book advocates of the ill clad fundamentals and traitors to the top people who fought the legal government that was composed of 13 colonies . On July that year the continental congress took a step forward to dissolve the relationship with Britain . It was considered to be a dangerous move of fighting the most powerful nation of the world

King George was not happy with this and spoke before the parliament to the revolution to be stopped . The commanders chosen by the king had their own view on this revolution . Lord George German thought that the upheaval had crushed with a critical drive . Edmund Burke was speaking considerably for the pioneers of the revolution but used to term it as...