Before The Battle of Lexington and Concord many thoughtful commentators, in both England and the American colonies, thought peace was possible between the colonies and the mother country. When they woke up on April 19, 1775, the men were at peace. When they laid their heads down that night, millions of people, across the greatest Empire in world history, were at war. Thousands would be wounded. Boston would be besieged for more than a year. New York City would be threatened. This is the story of that day and the &#8220;shot heard round the world.&#8221; It&#8217;s all here and it&#8217;s all free on this extensive military history of The American Revolution.



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Download episode 107 here: <a href="https://archive.org/download/bc-107/BC107.mp3">download link</a>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A History of the American Revolution Maps and Images:</h3>



Extensive maps and images are posted to the Historical Atlas of American Revolution located <a href="https://thebattlecast.com/2025/11/16/a-historical-atlas-of-the-american-revolution/">here</a>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Music Source:</h3>



Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: <a href="http://karlcasey.bandcamp.com">karlcasey.bandcamp.com</a>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">References:</h3>



The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, expanded edition, by Bernard Baylin.&nbsp;



The Annals of America Volume 2 1755 &#8211; 1783 Resistance and Revolution by Mortimer Adler (editor)



Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World by George Daughan



Atlas of American Military History (2003). Edited by James Bradford. Oxford University Press. New York, NY.&nbsp;



The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson&nbsp;



The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson&nbsp;



A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin



The Sniper at War by Mike Haskew



A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence Babits



A People’s History of the U.S. Military by M. Bellesiles.&nbsp;



A Revolutionary People at War by Charles Royster



The American Revolution: 1774-1783 by Daniel Marston



American Revolution Biographies by Linda Schmittroth and Mary Kay Rosteck; edited by Stacy A. McConnell.



The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants&nbsp; by Henry Steele Commager (Editor), Richard B. Morris (Editor).



Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel by Charles Jellison



The American Revolution parts 1 and 2 by Allen Guelzo. The Teaching Company.&nbsp;



American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor



American Wars and Heroes by Maurice Matloff (editor)



Boston Campaign: April 1775-March 1776 by Victor Brooks



British Soldiers; American War: voices of the American Revolution by Don Hagist



Charleston! Charleston!: The History of a Southern City by Walter Fraser, Junior.&nbsp;



1776 by David Mccullough



Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Second Edition edited by Harold Selesky.&nbsp;



The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness accounts of the War for Independence edited by John Dann



Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment during the American Revolution by Mark Urban.



George Washington’s War by Bruce Chadwick



Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow



Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman



Glorious Cause: The American Revolution by R. Middlekauf



George Washington: Writings by George Washington; edited by John H. Rhodehamel. Library of America series.&nbsp;



The American Revolution: A History by Gordon Wood



George Washington&#8217;s War: The Saga of the American Revolution by Robert Leckie&nbsp;



Kings Mountain: The Defeat Of The Loyalists October 7, 1780 by Dave Dameron&nbsp;



The New England Clergy and the American Revolution by Alice Baldwin



New York 1776: The Continentals&#8217; First Battle by David Smith



Boston 1775 by Brendan Morrissey&nbsp;



Yorktown 1781: The World Turned Upside Down by Brendan Morrissey&nbsp;



Saratoga 1777: The Turning Point of the Revolution by Brendan Morissey



Saratoga: Turning Point of America&#8217;s Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum&nbsp;



Guilford Courthouse: 1781 by Angus Konstam



Quebec 1775: The American Invasion of Canada by Brendan Morrissey&nbsp;



Trenton and Princeton 1776-1777 by David Bonk



Forts of the American Frontier: 1776-1891 by Ron Field



Continental Infantryman of the American Revolution by John Milsop



Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes&nbsp; by Christopher Hibbert



Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution by John Luzader



The Battle of King’s Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts by Robert Dunkerly



The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn



The New Cambridge Modern History: The American and French Revolutions 1763-93 edited by A. Goodwin. 2008



The Pulpit of the American Revolution by John Thornton&nbsp;



The Rhode Island Campaign by Christian McBurney



The Swamp Fox by John Oller



The American Revolution: A Concise History by R. Allison (2011)



The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles



The Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters by Edward Lengel&nbsp;



Victory or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton by Mark Maloy&nbsp;



The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton by Richard M. Ketchum&nbsp;



With Musket and Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777 by M.O. Logusz, (2010)



Americans at War. Eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century edited by&nbsp;



King George’s Army: 1740-’93 by Stuart Reid and Paul Chappell (three volumes). Osprey.



Continental Infantrymen of the American Revolution by John Milsop.&nbsp;



George III: King and Politician by Peter D.G. Thomas



A History of Britain (three volumes) by Simon Schama.&nbsp;



The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain edited by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson.&nbsp;



Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens



Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn Brodie



Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace



Alexander Hamilton A Concise Biography by Broadus Mitchell



Massachusetts: A Concise History by Richard Brown and Jack Tager&nbsp;



Colonial Rhode Island: A History by Sydney James



Colonial Connecticut: A History by Robert Joseph Taylor



Colonial Massachusetts: A History by Benjamin Labaree



Colonial Pennsylvania: A History by Joseph Illick



Colonial New Jersey: A history by John Pomfret



Colonial New York: A history&nbsp; by Michael Kammen



Colonial South Carolina: A History by Robert Weir



Colonial Georgia: A History by Kenneth Coleman



Colonial North Carolina: A History by Hugh Lefler and William Powell



Colonial New Hampshire: A History by Jere Daniel&nbsp;



Colonial Virginia: A History by Thad Tate, J. E. Seley and Warren Billings&nbsp;



Colonial Maryland: A History by&nbsp; Aubrey Land



Colonial Delaware: A History by John Munroe



Guelzo, Allen. “The American Revolution.” The Great Courses.&nbsp;



Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin Burrows.&nbsp;



The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn by Henry P. Johnston



The American Revolution : writings from the War of Independence edited by John Rhodehamel



The American Revolution: writings from the pamphlet debate



&nbsp;Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes by Hibbert, Christopher



&nbsp;The battle for New York : the city at the heart of the American Revolution by Schecter, Barnet&nbsp;



Philadelphia: A 300 Year History edited by Russel Weigly&nbsp;



The American Revolution in Indian country : crisis and diversity in Native American communities by Colin Calloway



&nbsp;The winter soldiers : the battles for Trenton and Princeton by Richard Ketchum



Saratoga by Richard Ketchum



&nbsp;1777: tipping point at Saratoga by Dean Snow



Victory at Yorktown : the campaign that won the Revolution by Richard Ketchum



Divided loyalties : how the American Revolution came to New York&nbsp; by Richard Ketchum


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