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Historical person
Charles Cornwallis was a British army officer and aristocrat who became one of the principal British commanders in the American Revolutionary War. He fought in major campaigns from New York and the Carolinas to Virginia and surrendered his army to George Washington and the French at Yorktown in 1781.
Cornwallis later rebuilt his career in imperial administration, serving as governor-general of India and as lord lieutenant of Ireland. In India he oversaw military campaigns and major administrative reforms, while in Ireland he governed during the aftermath of the 1798 rebellion and supported the Act of Union.
Jeff Shaara’s The Glorious Cause follows Charles Cornwallis through the campaigns that carry the American war south and finally to Yorktown, setting his command against Washington, Nathanael Greene and Lafayette. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Ashes brings that endgame into Isabel and Curzon’s flight through Virginia as Washington closes on Cornwallis’s besieged army. Dewey Lambdin’s The French Admiral shows the crisis from the sea, where the French victory in the Chesapeake prevents British relief and leaves Cornwallis isolated. Richard Woodman’s An Eye of the Fleet ends with HMS Cyclops carrying news of his surrender back to Britain. Robert Harvey’s A Few Bloody Noses places Cornwallis within the broader British conduct of the Revolution, following the imperial campaign from the early fighting to the international war that culminated at Yorktown.
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
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The George Washington trilogy follows the American Revolution through three moments when the independence movement could still have failed. Beginning with the desperate winter campaign of 1776, it moves through the deprivation and political strain of Valley Forge before concluding with the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. George Washington…
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The Seeds of America trilogy follows Isabel and Curzon, two young people fighting enslavement while Britain’s North American colonies fight for independence. Beginning in New York in 1776, continuing through Saratoga and the Valley Forge encampment, and ending at Yorktown in 1781, the novels connect their search for…
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The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures follow a reluctant young rake forced into the Royal Navy in 1780 and carried through the final years of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Alan Lewrie develops from an inexperienced midshipman into a resourceful captain, commodore…
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The Nathaniel Drinkwater series follows a Royal Navy officer from his first service during the American Revolutionary War to a final mission in early Victorian Britain. Drinkwater rises from vulnerable midshipman to experienced captain while operating across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Baltic, Arctic, Pacific and China seas. The fourteen…
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Non Fiction
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