Historian Daniel Garcia uncovers the tumultuous world of colonial America, where the world's armies clashed amid an often desperate contest among Native Americans, Africans and European settlers. Spanning the years 1492 to 1776, Rabble is a long overdue people's history of war and war resistance in this formative era, an ambitious narrative designed to examine the early centuries of American military history from the 'bottom up.' In a brilliant and eye-opening reconstruction of long-forgotten battles, Garcia shows how African and Native American warfare influenced the US.