The Fort
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On Sale:
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27/06/2012
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Formats:
Paperback
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Summer 1779.
Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort above a harbour to create a base from which to control the New England seaboard.
Forty-one American ships and over nine hundred men. Their orders: to expel the British.
The battle that followed was a classic example of how the best-laid plans can be disrupted by personality and politics, and of how warfare can bring out both the best and worst in men. It is a timeless tale of men at war, written by a master storyteller.
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Author Extras
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1356 [Unabridged edition]
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Death of Kings UNA
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Sharpe's Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 [Abridged
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