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Historical person
Thomas Gage is represented in the linked historical fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion, John Adams defends the soldiers accused in the killings, Benjamin Franklin attempts to preserve a workable imperial relationship in London, and Thomas Gage confronts resistance that his orders and troops repeatedly intensify.
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
