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Myths perpetuated:

138, 143, 152: Samuel Adams, the agitator, was responsible for unrest in Boston. (Two quotations for Adams are conjured, with no credible sources). See Founding Myths, chapter 3.

143: Paul Revere was the first to warn the minutemen at Lexington. See Founding Myths, chapter 1.

131, 145: “Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” See Founding Myths, chapter 9.

154-157: The July 4 “Unanimous” Declaration of Independence. (This is a doctored version.) See Founding Myths, Conclusion.

163: Patrick Henry’s speech. (This was conjured forty-two years later, eighteen years after he died.) See Founding Myths, chapter 8.

164, 165, 170: “Molly Pitcher” was a real person. See Founding Myths, chapter 2.

167, 171: Slaves were patriotic. (You provide contradictory numbers — first 5,000, then 10,000 — and you give no numbers for slaves fleeing to the British.) See Founding Myths, chapter 10.

174: Soldiers suffered patiently at Valley Forge. See Founding Myths, chapter 5.

178: Indians were brutal, whites were not. See Founding Myths, chapter 11.

178, 180: George Rogers Clark and his frontier raiders “saved” the West. See Founding Myths, chapter 13.

Critical items neglected, which change our understanding of the Revolution:

The first seizure of political and military authority from the British — Massachusetts, 1774. See Founding Myths, chapter 4.

Over ninety state and local declarations of independence, which set the stage for the congressional declaration. See Founding Myths, chapter 6.

General Sullivan’s genocidal expedition against the Iroquois, the only significant American campaign of 1779. See Founding Myths, chapter 13.

The winter the Continental Army spent at Morristown — far colder than that spent at Valley Forge, and the harshest in 400 years. See Founding Myths, chapter 5.

The global context for the American Revolution — why the war continued after Yorktown. See Founding Myths, chapter 12.