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Christopher Hibbert's Redcoats And Rebels
Christopher Hibbert was a British Historian, Historical writer, and Biographer. Hibbert’s work was focused primarily on non-fiction literature written about the many different historical eras; focusing more on the last two hundred years or so. The novel “Redcoats and Rebels” was initially published in 1990 and then published in paperback by Norton in 2002; in total it is 375 pages long.
In Hibbert’s narrative “Redcoats and Rebels” the British troops come toe to toe with the Colonial rebels. He accurately depicts history from the British point of view which is largely overlooked in American grade schools, where we are taught history in a rather biased way seeing that we are the victors of the war. He adds insight by adding key pieces of information

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