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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists inthe American RevolutionCOPY LINK IN DESCRIPTIONTO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOKCopy Link >> https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/0385546513&#8220Amricans tend to forget that we have always been atwar with one another&#8212evn in the beginning&#8230Brands tells the story of the American Revolution as it reallyunfolded&#8212asa civil war between colonial patriots andthose loyal to the British Crown and Parliament. Division,Brands reminds us, is as American as unity.&#8221&#8212JoMeacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of His Truth IsMarching OnFrom best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prizefinalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrativeof the American Revolution that shows it to be more than afight against the British: it was also a violent battle amongneighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot.Whatcauses&#8239peple to forsake their country and take armsagainst it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly
distinguishable in&#8239taion&#8239orsuccess, to defendthat country against the rebels?&#8239#8239That is thequestion H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history ofthe American Revolution.George Washington and BenjaminFranklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was moresuccessful still, having risen from humble origins to worldfame. John Adams might have seemed a more obviouscandidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament.Even so,&#8239herevered the law.&#8239Ye all three menbecame rebels against the British Empire that fostered theirsuccess.Others in the same circle of family and friends chosedifferently. William Franklin might have been expected to joinhis father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to theBritish. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friendof the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger tothe Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced astraitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grewup. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced tochoose sides as civil war broke out around them.After theRevolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and foundingfathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts bestforgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before Americacould win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to wina bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.

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