The whites of their eyes : Bunker Hill, the first American Army, and the emergence of George Washington

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The whites of their eyes : Bunker Hill, the first American Army, and the emergence of George Washington

Title remainder

Bunker Hill, the first American Army, and the emergence of George Washington

Statement of responsibility

Paul Lockhart

Creator

• trueLockhart, Paul Douglas, 1963-

Subject

• HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
• United States, Continental Army
• trueBunker Hill, Battle of, 1775
• History
• Bunker Hill, Battle of (Boston, Massachusetts : 1775)
• HISTORY -- Military | United States
• Massachusetts -- Boston
• 1775
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Bunker Hill (Boston, Mass.), Battle of, 1775
• trueRevolutions -- United States
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• trueWashington, George, 1732-1799
• United States, Continental Army -- History
• Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
• trueUnited States, Continental Army -- History
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- Revolutionary War (America)
• trueAmerican Revolution, 1775-1783
• trueUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre

• trueHistory writing
• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

• Offers a reassessment of the first major engagement of the American Revolution by intertwining two equally important stories--the creation of America's first army and the rise of the man who led it, George Washington
• One hot June afternoon in 1775, on the gentle slopes of a hill near Boston, Massachusetts, a small band of ordinary Americans--frightened but fiercely determined--dared to stand up to a superior British force. But the first real engagement of the American Revolution and one of the most famous battles in our history, Bunker Hill was not the battle that we have been taught to believe it was. Revisiting old evidence and drawing on new research, Lockhart shows that Bunker Hill was a clumsy engagement pitting one inexperienced army against another. Lockhart tells the rest of the story, too: how a mob of armed civilians became America's first army; how George Washington set aside his comfortable patrician life to take command of the veterans of Bunker Hill; and how the forgotten heroes of 1775--though overshadowed by the more famous Founding Fathers--kept the notion of American liberty alive.--From publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.3/312

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

E241.B9

LC item number

L63 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

973.3 L816w

Target audience

adult