TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cornwell, Bernard
TI  - The Fort
SN  - 978-0-00-733172-7
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical
N2  - In the summer of 1779, in the third year of the War of Independence, a British force of seven hundred and fifty men, led by their Brigadier-General Francis McLean, sailed down from Halifax. Their mission was to establish a garrison in a crucial position controlling the New England seaboard and provide a safe haven for any still loyal American colonialist. So, suported by three small ships and his raw, ambitious lieutenant, John Moore (of later Corunna fame), McLean began to build the fort
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