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Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown

Thomas Fleming

出版	New Word City, 2015-03-02
主題	History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)History / Military / United StatesHistory / Military / StrategyPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismHistory / Modern / 18th Century
ISBN	16123084739781612308470
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a4rlBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.