After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
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Название: After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
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Автор: Don Glickstein
Год выпуска: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 5,6 МБ
ISBN: 335184652311
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: 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 BalanceAlthough 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.