Название: The Battle of Yorktown, 1781: A Reassessment
Автор: John D. Grainger
Издательство: Boydell Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 218
Размер: 13.3 Мб
Язык: English
Yorktown [1781], where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American War of Independence. This accessible and authoritative account of the battle and the wider campaign goes back to original source material [diaries, letters, speeches, and newspapers], offering both a narrative of the events themselves, and an analysis of how the defeat came about and why it came to be seen as crucial.