Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary ... the war, recalled several black men among the "courageous patriots ...

Some of the British leaders had lived in North America for ... in chief for North America in the years leading up to the Revolution, had long experience of life in the American colonies.

Samuel Adams was a patriot and he may have been a brewer ... rebellious streak may have dabbled in brewing before the Revolutionary War. It was this connection founder Jim Koch was channeling ...