Redcoats and rebels / The War for America 1770-1781 - Christopher Hibbert
the war for America, 1770-1781
KORTE INHOUD
"The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. Basing his compelling narrative on a variety of sources - enlivened by astute character sketches of the principal participants and eye-witness accounts - Christopher Hibbert portays the realities of a savage war which raged the length of an entire continent. It was war, condemned by thousands of his fellow-countrymen, which George Washington came perilously close to losing. Both before and after General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga the British rarely lost a battle until the French, motivated largely by self-interest, helped the rebels defeat Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781"--Jacket.
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2001, paperback, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Hibbert, Christopher] [Taal: nl] [Uitgever: Penguin Classic Military History] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Redcoats and rebels / The War for America 1770-1781]
