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Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution (2008)

door Tony Williams

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History. Nonfiction. HTML: The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from God, what this storm signified to the colonists about the justness of their cause would yield unexpected results. Drawing on ordinary individuals and well-known founders like Washington and Franklin, Tony Williams paints a stunning picture of life at the dawn of the American Revolution, and of the weighty choice people faced at that deciding moment. Hurricane of Independence brings to life an incredible time when the forces of nature and the forces of history joined together to produce courageous stories of sacrifice, strength, and survival. .… (meer)

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Nicely done and fun to read. Tony Williams' book follows the east coast path of a Hurricane (Hurricane of Independence) during early Sept of 1775 when the the Revolutionary War is taking shape. He uses the storm to show how weather can affect and shape historical events, not only physically but psychologically as well. His work touches on the influences of other weather systems (aside from the subject Hurricane ) on Revolutionary events to make his point. The book I feel at times gets a little disjointed, but I did like how he uses the hurricane (and other weather systems) to explore the lives of the people of the time. (

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stevetempo | Jul 31, 2009 |

It does not take long to realize that this book was written by a history teacher. Packed full of interesting facts and notes; it unfortunately does not flow. Although tied together (quite loosely) by a hurricane, the book jumps around chronologially as the author tells of the hurricane as it travels up the Atlantic coast. The author, in my opinion, assumes that the reader has a better than average knowledge of the main characters as he mentions politicans, battles, congresses, and military leaders in the years prior to the "Battle for Independence".
By chapter 12, you just want to finish. It is really a shame, because the author really knows his facts. (

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busterrll | Feb 7, 2009 |

http://jmnlman.blogspot.com/2008/08/hurricane-of-independence-untold-story.html

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Under the cover of darkness on the cold evening of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and a large throng of irate Bostonians descended upon the waterfront where the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver lay gently bobbing in harbor waters.

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History. Nonfiction. HTML:

The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season

On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from God, what this storm signified to the colonists about the justness of their cause would yield unexpected results.

Drawing on ordinary individuals and well-known founders like Washington and Franklin, Tony Williams paints a stunning picture of life at the dawn of the American Revolution, and of the weighty choice people faced at that deciding moment.

Hurricane of Independence brings to life an incredible time when the forces of nature and the forces of history joined together to produce courageous stories of sacrifice, strength, and survival.

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