Fields of Battle: The Wars for North AmericaAt once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people. • "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice."--The Washington Post Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil. |
Contents
TWO The Forts of New France | 65 |
THREE The Fort at Yorktown | 135 |
FOUR Fortifying the Confederacy | 187 |
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