Ebook {Epub PDF} Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution by Richard M. Ketchum

Victory At Yorktown: The Campaign That Won The Revolution|Richard M, Trios for All Occasions (Score Parts) (Eighth Note Publications)|David Marlatt, Cycle Racing|J. MATTHEWS, Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills|Frank F. Johnson/10().  · Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution: Author: Richard M. Ketchum: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, ISBN: X, Length: 4/5(4). Richard M. Ketchum’s Victory at Yorktown details the story of this crucial battle. Ketchum also has published several other campaign histories of the War for American Independence, including The Battle for Bunker Hill (), The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton (), and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War ().

The Yorktown Campaign ensured American efforts to win independence from Great Britain would end in success, and elevated General George Washington's notoriety as a result of his role directing the victory. Washington's Continental Army, substantially aided by French land and naval forces, surrounded the British southern army under the command of General Charles, Earl of Cornwallis. Ketchum is at his best when explaining how all of these pieces fell into place in order for the siege at Yorktown to result in a strategically decisive victory. He also explains how the war limped on for two more years--a good lesson for the reading public, who equates Yorktown with the end of the war. From "the finest historian of the American Revolution" comes the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence (Douglas Brinkley)In , during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All hope seemed lost until a powerful French force landed at Newport in July.

Ketchum brings to life the gripping and inspirational story of how the rebels defeated the world's finest army against all odds. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY OCT 4, This informative and entertaining chronicle of the American Revolution's final battles also concludes Ketchum's fine series of that war's campaign histories. Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution: Author: Richard M. Ketchum: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, ISBN: X, Length: Richard M. Ketchum’s Victory at Yorktown details the story of this crucial battle. Ketchum also has published several other campaign histories of the War for American Independence, including The Battle for Bunker Hill (), The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton (), and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War ().