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Tories : fighting for the king in America's first civil war

The American Revolution was not simply a battle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, the village green, and even in church

Print Book, English, ©2010
1st ed
Harper, New York, ©2010