num_pages: 278
description: With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming delivers a fascinating and vivid account of the Siege of Yorktown. Along with French General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau George Washington made an astonishing march through New Jersey and trapped British General Charles Cornwallis and his forces in Yorktown Virginia where they unleashed a tremendous artillery assault with the support of the French navy. But victory was never certain - both sides made a series of dramatic attacks and counterattacks. Using the diaries and letters of participants in the siege Fleming creates a moving and exciting depiction of the days in October 1781 that ended the American Revolution and changed the world.
language: English
title: Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown
publisher: New Word City, Inc.