The Powder Alarm: The History of the Military Crisis that Nearly Started the American Revolution in 1774

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard `round the world” to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington & Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses. From 1764-1775, a...