The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062010875 ISBN 13: 9780062010872

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2012

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2012-01-03 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US In the summer of 1779. as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South. a British force consisting of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry and backed by three sloops-of-war sails to the fogbound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay. in the eastern province of Massachusetts. the Scots harry rebel privateers and shelter American loyalists. In response. the Americans send more . than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to captivate. kill. or destroy the foreign invaders But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat that will have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides of the conflict: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore. at the beginning of an illustrious military career... and a Bo...

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‘Nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell’ Lee Child

‘Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail

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In the summer of 1779, as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South, a British force consisting of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry and backed by three sloops-of-war sails to the fogbound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts, the Scots harry rebel privateers and shelter American loyalists. In response, the Americans send more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill, or destroy" the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat that will have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides of the conflict: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, at the beginning of an illustrious military career . . . and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062010875
• ISBN 13: 9780062010872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496