<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> General Washington wanted Benedict Arnold taken alive, right in the heart of British-held New York.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When Benjamin Franklin came home from France in diplomatic triumph, he left behind a lovely, highborn lady mourning the miles between them.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Forty years ago a Boston banker suggested that the Battle of Lexington had become a myth, and later evidence proves him right</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">George Washington had his Martha; John Adams had his Abigail—and Henry Knox had his Lucy. Or did Lucy have him? She was high-strung, demanding, and stubborn, but she loved him unto death</span></p>
<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">Warren took the lead in creating the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Refusing to leave Boston like the other radical leaders, he died in the fighting on Breed's Hill in 1775</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The key to control of Canada was a city whose defenders doubted they could hold out for long once the American Rebels attacked</span> </span></p>
<p>Clark’s career was like the passage of a meteor—a quick, fiery moment that lit up the heavens for all to see and wonder at, then vanishing in oblivion.</p>
<p>Crowds on both sides of the Atlantic shouted “Wilkes and Liberty!” after he was jailed and tossed out of Parliament for defending the rights of Colonists and the “middling and inferior sort of people who stand most in need of protection.”</p>
<p>Credited with shouting “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” at Bunker Hill, he was perhaps the most experienced general in the American army. But “Old Put” was not without his faults.</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>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The brilliant Polish engineer who made possible the victory at Saratoga was a fighter for freedom in both America and his homeland</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Who today remembers John Paulding, Isaac Van Wert, or<br />
David Williams? Yet for a century they were renowned as the<br />
rustic militiamen who captured Major John André</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Courtly, gallant, handsome, and bold, John Laurens seemed the perfect citizen-soldier of the Revolution. But why did he have to seek death so assiduously?</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> and how, a decade after the Revolution, a melodramatic rescue attempt, involving a grateful young American, went awry</span> </span></p>
