The Book of 1776 takes place on October 26, 1775 with King George III having a procession in his-self designed 4-ton coach. Despite his high life designed coach, he was a simple man with a lifestyle of that of a farmer. Many had thought of the King to be an unintelligent and uncommonly ugly, yet this was quite opposite. King George III was tall, and robust man, with clear blue eyes and an exceptional taste for music. He was quite talented to have learned piano and violin. Even though the King was not in fact a military man, he had believed that the colonies needed to follow the commands of the King. Even if many had disagreed with the King most had followed him with his decision. The first chapter continues with the details of this causation …show more content…
James Chronicles. The next section would go on to tell about the hardships New Englanders would have to endure during the war. Many of it was due to having no discipline. Those who had served the war were men of crafting, they had no experience in war even though living with hardship, this was an entirely different way of life. The soldiers had very poor living conditions due to their uncleanliness and disregards to order. They knew little besides drinking, whoring, and carousing about. Few would leave unofficially to help families with crops, living conditions, or to simply roam about. Those who stayed had left trails of diseases and dishevelment in their wake from defecation and dirty clothing all through the thinking that cleaning was women's work. With facing all these hardships George Washington was also facing a crisis of low ammunition. Washington had implemented ways of gaining order within the troops he had. Men were flogged, whipped, and even run out of town for …show more content…
David McCullough goes about describing how King George III lived his life away from all the rumors spread about throughout time. He goes to talk of how Nathanael Greene had a severe deformity, yet overcame it and took lead as a general. How our own soldiers at the time were more preoccupied with living a sullied lifestyle of drinking and whoring. He then goes on to list how George washington had changed these mere craftsman into more orderly and trained soldiers. His point of view with writing this work is to show what more had gone on that wasn't thought or learned. The information that those who want to know of need to go digging and looking for in the deepest shadows of old text and writing during the war. The accounts of how men lived during this time, how they tried to out think and strategize against each other, an outstanding war between a great country founded many years before an emerging country fighting for its right to live