The American Revolution wasn’t a moment in time so much as a gradual drip, drip, drip, a series of events, grievances, provocations and confrontations that unspooled over a period of several years ...
“A glimmer, a gleam, the hurry of hoofs: a sturdy, square-jawed man speeds through the night, with an urgent message, on a borrowed horse. His topcoat flaps behind him. A bright moon hangs overhead,” ...