Bibliograph

Beat the Last Drum, The Siege of Yorktown, Thomas Fleming

Type

Label

Beat the Last Drum, The Siege of Yorktown, Thomas Fleming

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beat the Last Drum

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

947840074

Responsibility statement

Thomas Fleming

Sub title

The Siege of Yorktown

Summary

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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