George Washington plans to retake Boston but instead of attacking the city with all his men, he plans to occupy Dorchester late at night and then build fortifications against the British. “These fellows have done more work in one night than I could make my army do in three months.” Chapter 3, William Howe Washington believed in the cause he was fighting for and with his response, he set out an example for his soldiers and for the whole country. Washington knew that for America to go forward, they had to break free from the oppressive British Empire even if that meant sacrificing their own lives. Even though Washington had doubts about the strengths and value of his army, he never doubted the value of his work. When Washington is offered the possibility of making peace with the British Empire, he utters the words from above. “Those who have committed no fault want no pardon.” Chapter 4, George Washington Because of this, the correspondence between Washington and Reed is important because it reveals how Washington really felt about the war, the fears and insecurities he had and it allows the reader to peer into the mind of a man who kept his composure during a war he was most certain to loose.
George Washington knew how important it was to maintain a certain type of image before his subordinates and how much they would be affected if there were to know that Washington lost his hope in the American army. Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair, but in the privacy of his correspondence with Joseph Reed, he began now to reveal how very low and bitter he felt, if the truth were known. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers.Īt the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books - Nathaniel Green, a Quaker who was made a general at 33, and Henry Knox, a 25-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.īased on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality, says a review published on.
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