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Explore Paul Revere's military service during the Revolution -- a major but disastrous episode in his life -- with Michael Greenburg, author of "The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty & America's Forgotten Military Disaster. At the height of the American Revolution, Massachusetts launched the Penobscot Expedition, a massive military and naval undertaking designed to keep the British out of the strategically important coast of Maine. What should have been an easy victory for the larger American force quickly disintegrated into a quagmire of arguing, disobedience, and failed strategy. In the end, not only did the British retain their position, but the entire flotilla of American vessels was lost in what became the worst American naval disaster prior to Pearl Harbor. In the inevitable finger-pointing that followed the debacle, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Revere, commissioned as the expedition’s artillery commander, was shockingly charged by fellow officers with neglect of duty, disobeying orders, and cowardice. Though not formally condemned by the court of inquiry, rumors still swirled around Boston as to his role in the disaster, and so the fiery Revere spent the next several years of his life pursuing a court-martial to resuscitate the one thing he valued above all—his reputation.

About Michael: Michael Greenburg, a practicing attorney and former editor of the Pepperdine Law Review, is the author of four books, including "Peaches and Daddy," "The Mad Bomber of New York," and "This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South." Learn more about Michael HERE.

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