<p><span class="deck"> What was it like to actually be there in April, 1775?<br />
This is how the participants, American and British, remembered it </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It hardly seemed possible that a British garrison of seven hundred men could withstand a siege by the greatest American armada of the Revolution. But luck was not with the Americans that summer</span> </span></p>
<p>To explore the American Revolution through the eyes of John Singleton Copley is to see it with fresh eyes, to understand that it was a civil war with many shades of allegiance.</p>
<p>At a curious stone tower in Somerville, Massachusetts, panic in 1774 could have sparked a war seven months before Lexington and Concord entered the history books.</p>
