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Book Synopsis Victory at Yorktown by : Richard M. Ketchum
Download or read book Victory at Yorktown written by Richard M. Ketchum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scene was set for Washington's and Rochambeau's rapid move south, setting up the daring siege of Yorktown." "Drawing on primary research, including diaries and personal letters, acclaimed historian of the American Revolution Richard Ketchum offers an account of the strategies and personalities behind the victory that surprised the world. Yorktown was that rarest of military and naval operations in which everything fell into place at exactly the right moment. It was a race against time and distance, by land and at sea. After almost seven harrowing years and against all odds, Washington - with French help - defeated the world's finest army. The war was won."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Bugle, a Puppy in Old Yorktown by : Mary Evans Andrews
Download or read book Bugle, a Puppy in Old Yorktown written by Mary Evans Andrews and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Guns of Independence by : Jerome Greene
Download or read book The Guns of Independence written by Jerome Greene and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1781, after his victories in the Southern Colonies, Lord Cornwallis marched his army north into Virginia. He believed the Americans could be decisively defeated in Virginia and the war brought to an end. George Washington believed Cornwallis's move was a strategic blunder, and he moved vigorously to exploit it. Feinting against General Clinton and the British stronghold of New York, Washington marched his army quickly south. With the assistance of Rochambeau's infantry and a key French naval victory at the Battle off the Capes in September, Washington trapped Cornwallis on the tip of a narrow Virginia peninsula at a place called Yorktown. And so it began. Operating on the belief that Clinton would arrive with reinforcements, Cornwallis confidently remained within Yorktown's inadequate defenses. Determined that nothing short of outright surrender would suffice, his opponent labored day and night to achieve that end. Washington's brilliance was on display as he skillfully constricted Cornwallis's position by digging entrenchments, erecting redoubts and artillery batteries, and launching well-timed attacks to capture key enemy positions. The nearly flawless Allied campaign sealed Cornwallis's fate. Trapped inside crumbling defenses, he surrendered on October 19, 1781, effectively ending the war in North America.
Book Synopsis Surprise at Yorktown by : Marianne Hering
Download or read book Surprise at Yorktown written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! Travel two centuries back in time to the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown, Virginia. Cousins Patrick and Beth sneak through trenches and race across battlefields to warn General George Washington about a dangerous spy. The spy is stealing his secret plans and giving them to the British. Cannons roar and the ground shakes as the struggle reaches a climax. Washington’s ragtag soldiers are up against the most powerful army in the world. Will Patrick and Beth witness the American Revolution come to an end? Or will they be caught in a dangerous trap they can’t escape?
Book Synopsis Victory at Yorktown by : Newt Gingrich
Download or read book Victory at Yorktown written by Newt Gingrich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen pen the triumphant conclusion to their George Washington series-a novel of leadership, brotherhood, loyalty, and the victory of the American Revolutionary cause. 1781. After three years in a bitter stalemate, General Washington decides to embark on one of the most audacious moves in American military history. He will take nearly his entire army out of New Jersey and New York and force march it more than three hundred miles in complete secrecy. He must pray that the French navy is successful in blockading Chesapeake Bay, so that he can fall upon British General Cornwallis at Yorktown. It is a campaign laden with "Ifs" but the deadlock must be broken, otherwise the American spirit, after six long years of war, will crumble. A tour de force narrative of one of America's most important heroes, Victory at Yorktown vividly portrays Washington's unparalleled courage, determination, and patriotism as he leads his professional army, once a "rabble in arms," to the heat of the Battle of Yorktown to execute the Revolution's most decisive contest.
Book Synopsis Siege of Yorktown by : Henry Freeman
Download or read book Siege of Yorktown written by Henry Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of impact does a battle and siege from more than 200 years ago have on the world today? Yorktown held the key to the end of the American Revolution and allowed America to become not only a sovereign nation, but also set the stage for it to become a world power, worth keeping an eye on. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Road to Yorktown ✓ Opening Moves ✓ The Troops in Motion ✓ The Battle at Sea ✓ The Calm Before the Storm ✓ The Siege Commences ✓ The Fall When Washington moved against Cornwallis, the entire world held its breath. And when surrender was offered – first to the French – things could have ended very differently. One city. One long siege in the fall of the year – would change everything.
Download or read book After Yorktown written by Don Glickstein and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting the Rebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance Although most people think the American Revolution ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, it did not. The war spread around the world, and exhausted men kept fighting--from the Arctic to Arkansas, from India and Ceylon to Schenectady and South America--while others labored to achieve a final diplomatic resolution. After Cornwallis's unexpected loss, George III vowed revenge, while Washington planned his next campaign. Spain, which France had lured into the war, insisted there would be no peace without seizing British-held Gibraltar. Yet the war had spun out of control long before Yorktown. Native Americans and Loyalists continued joint operations against land-hungry rebel settlers from New York to the Mississippi Valley. African American slaves sought freedom with the British. Soon, Britain seized the initiative again with a decisive naval victory in the Caribbean against the Comte de Grasse, the French hero of Yorktown. In After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, Don Glickstein tells the engrossing story of this uncertain and violent time, from the remarkable American and French success in Virginia to the conclusion of the fighting--in India--and then to the last British soldiers leaving America more than two years after Yorktown. Readers will learn about the people--their humor, frustration, fatigue, incredulity, worries; their shock at the savage terrorism each side inflicted; and their surprise at unexpected grace and generosity. Based on an extraordinary range of primary sources, the story encompasses a fascinating cast of characters: a French captain who destroyed a British trading post, but left supplies for Indians to help them through a harsh winter, an American Loyalist releasing a captured Spanish woman in hopes that his act of kindness will result in a prisoner exchange, a Native American leader caught "between two hells" of a fickle ally and a greedy enemy, and the only general to surrender to both George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte. Finally, the author asks the question we face today: How do you end a war that doesn't want to end?
Book Synopsis The Battle of Yorktown, 1781 by : John D. Grainger
Download or read book The Battle of Yorktown, 1781 written by John D. Grainger and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Survey and analysis of important battle of the American War of Independence"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book USS Yorktown written by Barbara Stahura and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle of Yorktown by : Wendy Vierow
Download or read book The Battle of Yorktown written by Wendy Vierow and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the advancementof the British and American troops at the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia in 1781.
Download or read book Yorktown written by Kathleen Manley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1750, the deepwater port of Yorktown housed approximately 250–300 businesses, with as many as 2,000 people thriving in the small town. By 1781, the Revolutionary War’s final siege had been staged, and the British were caught without resources to win the final battle against the American and Allied forces. Freedom was won for America, but Yorktown would continue to see war. In 1862, the Peninsula Campaign of the Civil War led to a monthlong battle near the site of the previous conflict. In 1917, World War I brought the embarkation of the Atlantic Fleet, and within a few decades, World War II would change Yorktown and the nation forever. These historic postcards portray the first family houses, the churches, the courthouses, the military, the battlefields, and the commemorative memorials of the area, showing the town’s progression through time, from the 18th century through the present day.
Download or read book Yorktown written by Linda G. Cooper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yorktown is one of the northernmost towns in Westchester County. This volume of vintage postcards draws from a time when the railroad was a predominant fixture in the community and travelers flocked to summer hotels and lakeside bungalow colonies. Often thought of as ephemera, something to be used and thrown away, postcard images have proven over time to be a valuable document of a time and place. For those who were visitors and those who received postcards, these striking images capture the past in terms of Yorktowns architecture, entertainment, commerce, and community.
Book Synopsis Yorktown and Nordheim by : Nordheim Historical Society
Download or read book Yorktown and Nordheim written by Nordheim Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded 7 miles apart in south central Texas, Yorktown and Nordheim were settled by German immigrants. These immigrants found the rolling hills and grassland full of oak trees suitable for settlement, and the rich soil helped to make farming a way of life. Yorktown was settled near the Coleto Creek as a rest stop along the Indianola Trail for teamsters delivering freight to New Braunfels. Nordheim was settled because it was a high point and beacon for settlers, and it continued to grow when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad was built. As the towns grew, so did the businesses and churches. The settlers shared a love of music, and bands came together to perform at various functions. On Saturdays the farmers, their families, and hired help would come to buy supplies, visit friends, and enjoy a day away from work. Today the spirit of community is still strong as citizens put together annual celebrations and activities that promote tourism and help to maintain local pride.
Book Synopsis USS Yorktown at Midway by : Stanford Linzey
Download or read book USS Yorktown at Midway written by Stanford Linzey and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the epic Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown, with 2,500 men aboard, received three bomb hits and two torpedoes. Eighty-six men died instantlymany were wounded. At the command, Abandon ship! the crew slid down the lines into the murky, oily waters of the Pacific.Barefoot survivors knelt on the steel deck of a rescuing war ship and offered thanks to the Almighty. The author is a survivor.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Yorktown by : Dee Ready
Download or read book The Battle of Yorktown written by Dee Ready and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the British were outsmarted by George Washington and his troops near the city of Yorktown and how that battle turned the tide of the Revolutionary War.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Yorktown by : Dale Anderson
Download or read book The Battle of Yorktown written by Dale Anderson and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the last major battle of the Revolutionary War, describing the events at Yorktown and their impact on the history of America.
Book Synopsis Old Yorktown and Its History by : Margaret P. Crooks Smith
Download or read book Old Yorktown and Its History written by Margaret P. Crooks Smith and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
