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The Shoemaker And The Tea Party Turning Points
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party gives us a key insight to the happenings of the American Revolution from the perspective of someone who was actually there and the general public, not just a bystander but someone who was involved and caught up in these key turning points and is now just looking back years after the fact. George Robert Twelves Hewes was a Boston Shoemaker who was an active participant in key turning points in the American Revolution such as the Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party. But this book also delves into the detail of when were these events actually considered turning points and when did they start calling them “events”.
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