On this episode of Our American Stories, Abigail Adams was raising her children near Boston when the first major clash of the American Revolution exploded across the harbor. She brought seven-year-old John Quincy to the top of Penn Hill, and they watched the Battle of Bunker Hill in real time. They saw Charlestown burn, heard the cannon fire roll across the water, and felt the fear that swept through families as British soldiers clashed with the colonial army.

Robert Morgan, author of 100 Bible Verses That Made America, explains how this moment fit into the growing American Revolution timeline and why the Bible became the source Abigail leaned on as the war for independence closed in on her home.

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