George Washington's War: In Caricature and Print

A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: "Utterly absorbing" (The Times, London).

Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British caricatures of politicians and generals—for the most part favorable to the Colonists. For George III, Lord North, and Britain, the war was a disaster that need not have happened. The problems of cop...