1775 - A Good Year for Revolution

Iconoclastic historian Kevin Phillips punctuates the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution.

Learn why the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, the exodus of British troops and the expulsion of royal governors, to name a few—achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory that Britain was never able to overcome.

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