This is a story of rumour, charity, vengeance, and restraint. "American Insurgents, American Patriots" reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only tells the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to America's road to independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance.
"American Insurgents, American Patriots" is the stunning account of their insurgency, without which there would have been no independent republic as we know it.
- ISBN10 0809075881
- ISBN13 9780809075881
- Publish Date 11 May 2010
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 26 June 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English