The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

This is the first book in a three book trilogy. It is very long. There are multiple chapters on what would have a sentence in our school history books. In this book, Benedict Arnold is still on the side of the rebels. How would the American Revolution turned out if the British would have won? The book paints the rebels as fighting for strongly held, if not noble beliefs. They were not as well equipped as the British, but they had the advantage of being local at a time of difficult transport. There remained loyalists who still sided with the Brits. The British attempted to grant slaves freedom to fight on their side. This would later be copied by Lincoln when he faced a rebellion. The rebels made overtures to Canada, however, they were somewhat conflicted. The book ends with some early disasters at the start fo the revolution.