The First Salute
Subtitle: View of the American Revolution
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 1990
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780349110035
First sentence: WHITE puffs of gun smoke over a turquoise sea followed by the boom of cannon rose from an unassuming fort on the diminutive Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the West Indies on November 16, 1776.