Название: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
Автор: Don Glickstein
Издательство: Westholme Publishing
ISBN: 1594162336
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 448
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
After the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting the Rebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance
Although most people think the American Revolution ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, it did not. The war spread around the world, and exhausted men kept fighting—from the Arctic to Arkansas, from India and Ceylon to Schenectady and South America—while others labored to achieve a final diplomatic resolution.