The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story.
It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.īoston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes.
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