1782 engraving showing the British burning of Falmouth, Maine, in October 1775.
From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
There’s lots of stuff that even many American history buffs didn’t know in Rick Atkinson’s superbly researched The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777.
I particularly admired the detail on the battles of Lexington and Concord and Charlestown (aka “The Battle of Bunker Hill’’) and the British destruction of Falmouth, Maine, marred only by the sometimes tortured use of florid and obscure language, and too many technical military terms.
The Revolutionary War started in Massachusetts in 1775, or some might argue, several years before, and quickly drew in fighters from neighboring states, and so this book will presumably be of particular interest to New Englanders.
