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Myths Perpetuated:

139: Samuel Adams, by himself, created the Committee of Correspondence. See Founding Myths, chapter 3.

144: Samuel Adams quotation, “What a glorious morning is this.”
See Founding Myths, chapter 3.

144, 181: Paul Revere warns “that the British are coming.” (Revere himself, of course, was British.) See Founding Myths, chapter 1.

146: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” See Founding Myths, chapter 9.

156-159: “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of American,” dated July 4, 1776. (This is the doctored version.) See Founding Myths, Conclusion.

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

167: Five thousand patriotic African Americans, with no word about the much greater number who fought for the British. See Founding Myths, chapter 10.

172-173: Valley Forge marked the end of the soldiers’ suffering. See Founding Myths, chapter 5.

193: The “western ordinances … opened the way for settlement of the Northwest Territory in a stable and orderly manner.” 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. (It does cover, however, the arming and preparing for war before Lexington.) See Founding Myths, chapter 4.

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.