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Charles van Buren TOP 1000 REVIEWER 5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, history filled Bernard Cornwell novel March 8, 2019 Format: Kindle Edition This novel is based on a military action in what was then a part of Massachusetts but is now Maine. The Penobscot expedition is not one of the better known battles o Leggi tutto

In Britain we had a brilliant cunning plan - we shipped out convicts to Australia and our religious nutcases over to the newly discovered America. In retrospect we are well aware that we should have left these two groups at home and shipped ourselves out to the paradise of Australia and the land of

Read this book in 2010, and its a standalone book about the American War of Independence. Set in the year AD 1779, and the War of Independence in its third year, a British force of less than one thousand Scottish infantry are sent to Maine to build a garrison there. The State of Massachusetts is deter Leggi tutto

Nobody writes battle scenes like Bernard Cornwell, projecting you right into the smoke and heat of battle, and, in this one, we have battles on land and sea. This book is not in any series--it's a standalone about the Revolutionary War. Cornwell did some serious research into a rather obscure campai Leggi tutto

'The Fort' tells the story of one of the lesser-known military actions of the American War of Independance. A force of three small Royal Navy warships and 750 men under the command of General Francis McLean have been ordered to build a fort at Penobscot Bay, Massachusetts from which to control the Ne Leggi tutto