Lexington and Concord: Landmark Events in American History

The shots fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts in April 1775 launched the British colonists of North America into a war against their government and ancestral homeland. By the time independence from Britain had been won, a new identity had been established -- that of an American. This book explores the background to the American Revolution and explains how those first shots came to be fired. It examines the nature of colonial America and the ideas that united thirteen diverse colonies into a nation. It also traces the Revolutionary War and the efforts of a young republic to find a new form of government.