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Bestsellers
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....
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I was crazy addicted to this book.
- De Daniel R McCloy en 12-06-17
De: Jay Winik
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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President of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen examines what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy....
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Great book; highly recommended
- De Eric Moore Schneider en 02-21-24
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- De: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- De Kindle Customer en 04-26-22
De: Jeremy D. Popkin
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Loved everyone minute!
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-12
De: Robert K. Massie
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....
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I was crazy addicted to this book.
- De Daniel R McCloy en 12-06-17
De: Jay Winik
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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President of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen examines what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy....
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Great book; highly recommended
- De Eric Moore Schneider en 02-21-24
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- De: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- De Kindle Customer en 04-26-22
De: Jeremy D. Popkin
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Loved everyone minute!
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-12
De: Robert K. Massie
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
- De: Katherine Howe
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists....
De: Katherine Howe
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
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This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness....
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Tom Reiss
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers....
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The story behind the greatest novelist of all time
- De Melinda en 01-13-13
De: Tom Reiss
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- De: Peter Stark
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation....
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Loved learning how a greater leader became one!
- De Will en 11-01-18
De: Peter Stark
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- De: Antonia Fraser
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....
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Annoying Narration
- De LaFemmeRouge en 10-28-06
De: Antonia Fraser
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Thomas Paine Classic Collection
- Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man
- De: Thomas Paine
- Narrado por: Russell Newton
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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This Thomas Paine Classic Collection contains three of Thomas Paine's most notable books: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man....
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As it was then, so it is today.
- De Jason Lehne en 10-28-20
De: Thomas Paine
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- De: Jason Roberts
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....
De: Jason Roberts
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: David Monteath
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.
De: Angus Konstam
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
De: Robert Darnton
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 48 m
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....
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Audio Skips!!
- De Joseph M. Arnold en 07-02-15
De: Simon Schama
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James Madison
- America's First Politician
- De: Jay Cost
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent....
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Good listen
- De James Shannon en 06-27-22
De: Jay Cost
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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From New York Times best-selling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls....
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well written and researched
- De K D en 09-29-19
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: Andrew J. Andersen
- Duración: 21 h
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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Wonderful book. Atrocious reading.
- De Jaded Buddha en 04-13-24
De: Robert Darnton
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The Victory with No Name
- The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
- De: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States Army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Miami River in northwestern Ohio....
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very good
- De Paola V. Hidalgo en 08-02-17
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Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
- De: Jesse Norman
- Narrado por: Jesse Norman
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time....
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Most excellent book!
- De Harish G. Naik en 03-02-19
De: Jesse Norman
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The Courtiers
- Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II....
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Annoying narrator
- De H en 04-11-24
De: Lucy Worsley
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West of the Revolution
- An Uncommon History of 1776
- De: Claudio Saunt
- Narrado por: Phil Holland
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies....
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Maybe better in print
- De Rick en 07-05-14
De: Claudio Saunt
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The Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: John Riddle
- Duración: 1 h y 14 m
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From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world....
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Terrible Reader, so bad listening is futile
- De Reademandweep en 12-21-18
De: Hourly History
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- De: Peter T. Leeson
- Narrado por: Jeremy Gage
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world....
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Pirates lived in a Libertarian Paradise!!!!
- De Logan Kedzie en 10-04-10
De: Peter T. Leeson
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 48 m
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court....
De: Simon Schama
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- De: Marcus Rediker
- Narrado por: Cornell Womack
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....
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The details
- De Dorothy en 04-26-24
De: Marcus Rediker
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Olaudah Equiano
- The Life and Legacy of the Freed Slave Whose Autobiography Fueled Britain's Abolitionist Movement
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Colin Fluxman
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
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Olaudah Equiano challenged the image of the unconscious African beast with such intellect, philosophical refinement, public presence, and elegant writing that standard British perceptions began to unravel....
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Conqueror Only Through God
- De Claudette Balmer en 06-25-23
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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- De: Eric Porterfield
- Narrado por: Daniel Winski
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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High points n so so narration
- De MN en 04-10-24
De: Eric Porterfield
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1774
- The Long Year of Revolution
- De: Mary Beth Norton
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....
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The US revolutionary war was baked in by 1775
- De Randall Parker en 04-18-20
De: Mary Beth Norton