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The fort : a novel of the Revolutionary War by Cornwell, Bernard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The fort : a novel of the Revolutionary War about?
<p><P>While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of 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—and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere.<P>Inimitably told in Cornwell’s thrilling narrative style, <i>The Fort</i> is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In a slight departure from his usual sword and musket epics, Cornwell (Agincourt) delivers a straightforward fictionalized account of a disastrous 1779 American military campaign in today's Maine (then Massachusetts) that's heavy on historical figures and tense battle scenes. After the British establish a fort on the Penobscot River, the Mass
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- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062011220
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (40 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14