Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Stars Stripes, Vol. 9: The Age of Independence, 1763-1783
Instead of throwing into a solid mass detailed accounts of all the battles of the conflict, their causes and effects, the methods of the modern novelist have been employed in The Stars and Stripes with the hope of giving the story a human interest that cannot be put into the usual historical narrative. From its beginnings in the Boston Massacre to the final triumph at Yorktown, not the glowing facts of history alone but the natural tendency of the human mind to follow the fortunes of the hero absorbs the reader's atten tion and aids him in fixing the entwined narrative in memorv beyond the possibility of forgetfulness. Previous volumes show the preparation for this great drama; in them the seeds are sown for a ripened harvest. Out of the smaller strifes of the colonies there emerges a unified and welded people, not yet used to its nationality, setting too much store upon liberty and not enough upon the restraints needful for successful government, but still one people, one nation, marching forward under the inspir ing banner of the Stars and Stripes to fulfil its destiny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
