THE ROAD TO YORKTOWN

Author: John Selby

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Year published: 1976

Pagination: x + 214pp, 50 illustrations, maps, orders of battle

Condition: Good in brown boards - no d/w. Small tear on back board.

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A chronicle of The American Revolutionary War. On the night of April 18 1775 a contingent of British Troops marched towards Lexington. On the Green they found their way barred by seventy 'Minutemen' - so-called because they were formed from 'minute companies of Militia'. This was the start of the American Rebellion - the American War of Independence. Six and a half years later on October 17, 1781 Cornwallis surrendered his army to Washington outside Yorktown.