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Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown

By Thomas Fleming

Book information

Publisher
Inc., New Word City
Year
2015
ISBN
9781612308470
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3584487 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-03 12:57:38
History; Nonfiction; HIS027110; HIS036030

Description

With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming delivers a fascinating and vivid account of the Siege of Yorktown. Along with French General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, George Washington made an astonishing march through New Jersey and trapped British General Charles Cornwallis and his forces in Yorktown, Virginia, where they unleashed a tremendous artillery assault, with the support of the French navy. But victory was never certain - both sides made a series of dramatic attacks and counterattacks. Using the diaries and letters of participants in the siege, Fleming creates a moving and exciting depiction of the days in October 1781 that ended the American Revolution and changed the world.

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