The Guns of Independence
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781

Jerome A. Greene

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 1-932714-05-7
On Sale: Fall 2004

By the summer of 1781, America had been at war with England for six years. Few guessed the colonists would have put up such a long and credible struggle. France had officially sided with the colonies as early as 1778, but it was the dispatch of 5,500 infantry under Comte de Rochambeau in the summer of 1780 that finally shifted the tide of war in North America. Read More...