{"id":1930,"date":"2026-06-25T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:40:48","slug":"a-patriots-take-on-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"A Patriot\u2019s Take On The American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History isn\u2019t written by \u201cthe winners.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s written by historians and persons of letters.\u00a0 Thus, what we know about the past depends on the interests and biases of those who compose treatises about the subject.\u00a0 Eric Metaxas\u2019s number one best seller, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World<\/em>, provides in its subtitle an unambiguous declaration of the author\u2019s conclusion about events in colonial America that are covered in this scrupulously researched book.\u00a0 Upon finishing its nearly 600 densely packed pages, most readers will likely wonder why so many things delineated therein were neglected or distorted by prior historians.<\/p>

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Foremost among those distortions is the assertion that most of America\u2019s founders were deists who rejected the idea of God\u2019s post-creation activity in human affairs.\u00a0 As Metaxas clearly shows via the words of various patriots, especially John Adams and George Washington, the notion of God\u2019s \u201cprovidential\u201d acts on behalf of the emergent nation was ubiquitous, a faith indissolubly linked to its adherence to biblical principles as articulated by ministers like George Whitefield.\u00a0 These \u201cno King but Jesus\u201d convictions spread by the ministerial \u201cBlack Robe Regiment\u201d were often derided by British elites who denigrated colonials as, in today\u2019s parlance, bible-bangers.\u00a0 A practical consequence of this gulf between British and colonial morals is illustrated by the humane treatment Americans typically provided captured troops versus the wretched fate most\u00a0 patriot soldiers faced who fell into British hands, an estimated 10,000 of whom died in captivity, outpacing the \u201cless than 7,000\u201d killed in combat.<\/p>\n

Metaxas further illustrates the decadence of Britain\u2019s leadership under George III by providing detailed descriptions of gatherings in England by prominent members of the Hellfire Club who not only embraced hedonism but even mocked Christian beliefs.\u00a0 Later the author devotes several pages to General William Howe\u2019s lavish farewell party in Philadelphia.\u00a0 By contrast, Washington is shown stressing the importance of discipline and moral conduct for himself and his troops in view of their \u201csacred\u201d cause, a cause for which colonials officially beseeched God\u2019s help by declaring days of fasting, prayer, and thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Though John Adams is invariably included in any worthy account of America\u2019s founding, the lasting memory history has bequeathed us often features slurs directed toward a \u201cblind, bald, crippled, and querulous\u201d Adams who as President had backed the Alien and Sedition Acts.\u00a0 Metaxas focuses instead on the biblically schooled, anti-slavery patriot hailed as the \u201cAtlas of American Independence\u201d by contemporaries. Indeed, Metaxas notes that Thomas Jefferson thought authorship of the Declaration should be given to the indispensable early promoter of American liberty and only agreed to compose the document himself at Adams\u2019s insistence.<\/p>\n

Metaxas\u2019s total narrative focuses on important players and crucial events from the death of George II in 1760 to the agreement ending the revolution in 1783.\u00a0 In that effort he employs materials mostly derived from original sources and numerous scholarly works.\u00a0 His extended description of the Boston Massacre is particularly compelling and makes clear that the colonies had their own share of less-than-pious rowdies.\u00a0 When perusing the author\u2019s account of this event, one\u2019s sympathy likely falls more with the handful of trapped British soldiers than with the unrelenting mob, including Crispus Attucks, that pelted the longsuffering troops with projectiles \u2013 a scene bearing no resemblance to the inaccurate etching of the \u201cmassacre\u201d distributed by Paul Revere for propagandistic purposes.\u00a0 How the scrupulously principled John Adams managed to provide those British soldiers with a partially successful legal defense while still maintaining his strong opposition to their being stationed in Boston is another significant story.<\/p>\n

If Adams is Metaxas\u2019s political hero, Washington is his military Cincinnatus. The general\u2019s many challenges are covered extensively, as are battlefield maneuvers that should resonate with aficionados of military strategy.\u00a0 During those fateful years Washington endured defeats, wretched fighting conditions, assassination attempts, rivalries from within the officer corps, and bleak prospects of success, all with a steadfast equanimity that bore witness to his character and leadership ability.\u00a0 Following this magnificent and grueling service to the fledgling country, Washington, like Cincinnatus, relinquished power.<\/p>

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Metaxas also provides rich portraits of other important individuals including John Hancock, Nathan Hale, Henry Knox, and Samuel Adams.\u00a0 Among those additional portraits is that of Abigail Adams, whose letters to her husband reveal a strong, biblically grounded spouse who stoically endured the vicissitudes of war for the sake of \u201cjustice, truth, and righteousness\u201d — an image more complete than that of a woman whose primary contribution to history were the words, \u201cRemember the ladies.\u201d\u00a0 Metaxas\u2019s rendering of General Benedict Arnold also fleshes out what for most folks is an incomplete picture.\u00a0 Arnold served heroically in the crucial battle of Saratoga during which he suffered a painful injury that doubtless contributed, alongside unquenched ambition, to his act of treachery that could have changed the course of history.\u00a0 Finally, incidental accounts of the savage treatment meted out by tribal warriors to combat enemies should cause a reassessment of any Disneyesque images of largely civilized and pacific \u201cNative Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metaxas\u2019s fine book, I must note, occasionally employs words and foreign phrases that are beyond the vocabulary of average readers who may have to keep a translating computer at hand or guess at meanings.\u00a0 Also, at times I wished an editor had excised some of the details Metaxas provides that aren\u2019t as critical as those happily included in his account of the Boston Massacre.\u00a0 For example, Henry Knox\u2019s heroic effort to bring cannons and other weaponry in Fort Ticonderoga to General Washington in Boston was recounted so thoroughly that a reader might feel he was enduring the icy, mountainous 300-mile trek himself, alongside the horses and oxen.<\/p>\n

That said, those complaints are miniscule compared to the insight achieved by looking at the American Revolution, as Metaxas does, through the eyes of patriots like Washington and John Adams and not through the eyes of a Marxist like Howard Zinn whose People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em> has sold well over two million copies.<\/p>\n

Richard Kirk is a freelance writer and retired teacher living in Southern California.\u00a0 His book\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Moral Illiteracy: \u201cWho\u2019s to Say?\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0is also available on\u00a0Kindle\u00a0, as is his book <\/strong><\/em>Poetry with a Moral Edge<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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