ePub Fighting Napoleon: The Recollections of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns by Gareth Glover in History

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A startling new history of the Revolutionary War; told from the perspectives of both the colonists and the colonizers.For generations; Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance; exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Now; in Iron Tears; master historian Stanley Weintraub offers the first account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and—most originally—that of England; embroiled in controversy over the war. Iron Tears renders an unprecedented account of the fight for American independence through British eyes; while dramatically narrating the battles that were waged across the Atlantic from Lexington to Yorktown and beyond. As the general; whom the British snobbishly and demeaningly referred to as “Mr. Washington;” rallied to keep his ragged and overmatched Continentals together and create a nation; “iron tears” fell from redcoat muskets and cannons; as well as from the demoralized eyes of the defeated British. Weintraub's multifaceted analysis will forever change and expand our view of the American Revolution.