Fascinating account of the beginning battles of the Revolutionary War outlining the root cause. Jefferson wrote in the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 1775: “We … most solemnly, before God and the world declare that … the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us, to preserve that liberty which He committed to us in sacred deposit.”