Court-Martial of Paul Revere Uncorrected Proof Paperback Book - (A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster)

from torrey23

I am an avid student of the Revolutionary War. As such, I typically know at least a little bit about any event of the war. I was completely unaware of the Penobscot Expedition, and I was clueless about Paul Revere's military career. I knew him from the events leading up to, and through, Lexington...

from spounds

I guess if you grew up taking Massachusetts or Maine History classes in high school, you might have heard of the Penobscot Expedition, but otherwise, it's probably nothing that hit your radar. In short, it was a disastrous foray of Americans from Massachusetts into the Penobscot Bay in Maine, the...

from Movielizard

This was a great history book about Colonial America (with specific focus on Massachusetts), although I do think the title is a little misleading. The first half of the book was more a biography of Paul Revere leading up to the Penobscot Expedition, and the second half detailed the expedition and...

from moibibliomaniac

Every American probably knows about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. But how many Americans know about Paul Revere's actions - or rather, his inaction - during the Penobscot Expedition? I didn't. And Michael M. Greenburg's book changed my opinion of Paul Revere. Paul Revere was many things: a pa...

from bks1953

This is a straightforward and compact volume (282 pages) centering on Paul Revere's conduct during a 1779 campaign of Massachusetts land and naval forces against a British post at Penobscot Bay (located in present-day Maine) and its almost three year aftermath. While the text focuses on the milit...