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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 oppositesides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Mooreand a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fortis the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between asuperpower and a nation in the making.
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The Fort, Bernard Cornwell
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- Publicado en
- 2011
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- Título
- The Fort
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Bernard Cornwell
- Editorial
- Harper
- Publicado en
- 2011
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0007331754
- ISBN13
- 9780007331758
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Aventura, Suspense, EE.UU., Prosa bélica, Guerras, Siglo XIX, Literatura inglesa, América, Siglo XVIII, Valor, Soldados, Armada, Revolución Americana
- Primera publicación
- 1998
- Título original
- Sharpe’s fortress
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- 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 oppositesides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Mooreand a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fortis the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between asuperpower and a nation in the making.