Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308473
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown by : Thomas Fleming
Download or read book Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown written by Thomas Fleming and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.