Month: June 2026

The subtitle of this book is “America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire; 1775-1783”. Each chapter takes a small slice of the time period, and describes mainly what is happening in England, and how the events in the colonies are impacting decisions there. One challenge was the length of time it took information to go back Read More

The subtitle of this book is “The Birth of American Independence”. Ellis writes about the summer of 1776, in detail. There were two main aspects of the fight for American independence going on at the same time. First, the Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia, where they were about to officially declare our separation from Read More