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Within the turbulent historical past of colonial New England, greater than 200 powder homes have been constructed to retailer gunpowder, weapons and armaments. Even the spark from a steel shoe nail may ignite their contents, in order that they steadily sat in far flung sections of the city. Those risky storehouses performed an important position in incomes and holding American independence. It was once, in the end, to a powder space in Brotherly love, Massachusetts, that the British military marched in April 1775 to snatch colonists’ gunpowder. The British have been thwarted, and the colonists’ protection of the powder space ignited the Innovative Warfare. Upload to this the duels, murders, public hangings and tragic explosions that checkered the historical past of those constructions, and the reader will uncover an interesting and forgotten facet of our New England heritage. The usage of meticulous analysis, Matthew Thomas narrates the colourful histories of New England’s powder homes as he resurrects their ancient importance in early American historical past.
الناشر : Historical past Press; Illustrated الإصدار (5 نوفمبر 2013)
اللغة : الإنجليزية
غلاف ورقي : 192 صفحات
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب ISBN-10 : 1626192421
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب ISBN-13 : 978-1626192423
الأبعاد : 15.24 x 0.79 x 22.86 cm
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