William Diamond’s Drum
The beginnings of the war of the American Revolution

by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot

Dust Jacket - front:

This is a neat old book about the Revolutionary War. The book was published in 1959 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. The book measures 6 3/8 inches by 9 ˝ inches and contains 311 pages. The dust jacket shows signs of wear. Part of the paper surface of the dust jacket is peeled off (approximately 1 square inch) probably along with an old price sticker. The condition of the dust jacket is fair to good. The green cloth cover of the book itself has the title in gilt on the spine. The cover shows minor signs of wear, hardly worth mentioning. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is very good.


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Title Page


Title Page - Verso

Contents:

    Preface
    Prologue – The Beat of the Drum
  1. Captain Parker’s Lexington
  2. The Visitors
  3. The Midnight Riders
  4. The Battle: Lexington
  5. The Battle: Concord
  6. The Battle: Retreat
  7. The Uses of Adversity
  8. Birth of an Army

    9. Notes
    Bibliography
    Index


Front End Pages - Map

Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
A straggling handful – perhaps forty in all – of Massachusetts farmers answered the call of William Diamond’s drum. Some of them were experienced fighters, veterans of the bloody French and Indians Wars, well versed in guerrilla tactics and undercover fighting. But they were no match for the seven hundred gleaming, handsomely uniformed British regulars bearing down on the small green meadow known as Lexington Common. The minutemen’s historic stand against the cream of General Gage’s Boston occupation army has become a legend, the subject of innumerable songs and poems-An American “Thermopylae.” What happened that April morning on Lexington Common and, a few hour later, at Concord Bridge and the dramatic events which preceded and followed the two battles-all this is revealed in Arthur Bernon Toutellot’s fully documented, fascinating history…
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Map – The British at Concord


The Retreat – The Whig press in England, which credited the Provincials’ version of the battles over that of Gage, became valuable partisans of the colonial cause. This cartoon was published as a broadside in London where it was very widely circulated. There are errors in the captions “Losing” for “Luring,” “Milliken” for “Milliken.” The cartoonist assumed four houses were destroyed because he thought the “Deacon” of Deacon Loins’ name referred to another man whom he called Mr. Deacon. John Carter Brown Library, Providence.


Boston Common, from the Tremont Street Mall, while the British troops were encamped there. The townspeople customarily watched the soldiers drill. John Hancock’s luxurious house (upper right) dominated the Common from the site of the present State House. The beacon from which Beacon Hill got its name, is behind Hancock’s orchard. Phelps Stokes Collection, New York Public Library.


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