The Romance of the Revolution by Oliver B. Bunce
July 2019
The Romance of the Revolution: Being True Stories of the Adventures, Romantic Incidents, Hairbreath Escapes, and Heroic Exploits of the Days of ’76, collected and edited by Oliver B. Bunce, is a 132,000-plus-word collection of stories and anecdotes from the American Revolution (1775–1783) published in 1870 as a reprint of a 1858 version which was itself a reprint of the original 1852 version. This eBook version has thirty illustrations which were not included in the print versions.
Publishing stories about the Revolutionary War used to be a cottage industry for small American publishers. Readers never seemed to tire of reading them, even stories with which they were already familiar. Sadly, we live in a different era now, when the principles and struggles of the American Revolution are out of style, and much of the American public is ignorant of their own history. Many of these stories, well-documented though they be, might seem too fantastic and amazing for the modern reader to believe—readers will find themselves thinking, “Wow! why doesn’t Hollywood make a movie about this?” And since a surprisingly large percentage of these stories involve women, the politically-correct Hollywood crowd should be all over them... one would think.
Publishing stories about the Revolutionary War used to be a cottage industry for small American publishers. Readers never seemed to tire of reading them, even stories with which they were already familiar. Sadly, we live in a different era now, when the principles and struggles of the American Revolution are out of style, and much of the American public is ignorant of their own history. Many of these stories, well-documented though they be, might seem too fantastic and amazing for the modern reader to believe—readers will find themselves thinking, “Wow! why doesn’t Hollywood make a movie about this?” And since a surprisingly large percentage of these stories involve women, the politically-correct Hollywood crowd should be all over them... one would think.