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“Middlekauff covers the military aspect of the Revolution. It is one of the best accounts of the war between the colonies and Great Britain. If you declare independence, then you’ve got to fight for it. And the colonies were taking on the greatest military power in the world at the time. Great Britain had emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the greatest European power, having defeated both France and Spain. So for the colonists to vanquish the British was a goal that was not easily achieved.” Read more...
Gordon S. Wood, Historian
