The First Salute; a View of the american Revolution
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf
Published: 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780394573915
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.