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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 06 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Robin Bowerman. |
| Summary |
While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scots-the only British troops between Canada and New York-harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill or destroy" the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat-and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829 -- Fiction.
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Revere, Paul, 1735-1818 -- Fiction.
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Saltonstall, Dudley, 1738-1796 -- Fiction.
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Penobscot Expedition, 1779 -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Fiction.
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Maine -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Bowerman, Robin. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062019172 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062019171 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11587567 |
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