The guns of independence : the siege of Yorktown, 1781 / / Jerome A. Greene.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Greene, Jerome A.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xix, 507 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

• The campaign of the allies
• The lion comes to Yorktown
• The British positions
• Washington takes command
• Investment
• The noose tightens
• The lion at bay
• On the verge
• The guns of October
• The earth trembles
• Night of heroes
• Hopes bright and dim
• Britain against the sky
• Broken sword
• Endings, beginnings
• Postscript : thereafter
• Appendix 1. Modern photographic gallery
• Appendix 2. The Washington and Cornwallis correspondence
• Appendix 3. The Articles of Capitulation, October 19, 1781
• Appendix 4. The archaeology of the French Grand Battery complex
• Appendix 5. The artillery at Yorktown.