With the help of some extensive research through both American and British documentations, "1776," by David McCullough, is a powerful literary drama written with amazingly descriptive vigor. It is the story of fellow Americans in the ranks. The American troops come from many different backgrounds. Men of every shape, size, and color joined. There were also schoolteachers, farmers, no-accounts, shoemakers, and young meager boys turned into soldiers. "1776" is also a story about the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly well-organized soldiers, whom were called redcoats, looked on their rebellious opponents with disdain and fought with an honor that it not recognized enough. However it is the American Commander who is given total recognition and props for American victory. General and future 1st president George Washington, who had never before led an army into battle, is the main focus of this novel of American triumph. At the center of it all, with Washington, were two young American patriots, whose only knowledge, at first, of war was the information acquired from the books they have read. The first patriot was a boy named Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was appointed general at thirty-three years old, and the other was Henry Knox, a twenty-five year old bookseller who came up with the ludicrous idea of transporting the weapons from Fort Ticonderoga, over land all the way to Boston in the middle of the very unforgiving winter. The action in the novel starts off with the battle of Bunker Hill, where the Americans undergo a loss by the British, but however managed to cause thousands of British casualties. The Americans recover from the defeat and make an attempt to attack on Boston where the British soldiers are caught by surprise. Luckily, The British evacuate to Great Britain on their ships and surrender to Washington's army. The American spirit was at an all-time high at this point and Commander Washingto