Saratoga-Yorktown 1777-1781 by Izabella Rusinowa

The Americans failed to capture Quebec at the end of 1775, but did force the British to evacuate Boston in 1776. In 1775-78, the Revolutionary War was fought primarily in the north between Quebec and Pennsylvania. It was one of a long string of defeats, after which the Continental Army led by George Washington managed to survive but could not force the British to end the war. The French and American victory at Yorktown started with a major defeat at Charleston, South Carolina in May, 1780. Shepherd, 1923) and Library of Congress, Campagne en Virginie du Major General M'is de LaFayette: ou se trouvent les camps et marches, ainsy que ceux du Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis en 1781

Source: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1781 (in Historical Atlas by William R. Our online platform, Wiley Online Library () is one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.In 1781 Cornwallis marched from Wilmington to Petersburg, then to Portsmouth and finally to Yorktown With a growing open access offering, Wiley is committed to the widest possible dissemination of and access to the content we publish and supports all sustainable models of access. Wiley has partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies and publishes over 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols in STMS subjects. Wiley has published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.

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Saratoga-Yorktown 1777-1781 by Izabella Rusinowa