Yorktown and Other Notes
* But Washington was really after a prize 400 miles to the south, where the French ships blockaded Chesapeake Bay and the Continental Army trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. Only a British historian could refer to this battle as merely "the turning point of the war" -- it's a bit like describing Waterloo as a setback for Napoleon. Cornwallis's surrender ended the war with complete victory -- and independence -- for the Americans. *
'Rebels and Redcoats' has a revolutionary take on American independence. The American Revolution is how our country came into being, but it has also become our great national heroic saga. As children, we learn it as a mythic tale of ragged but virtuous citizen-soldiers triumphing over Great Britain, then the mightiest military power on earth. It is America's David-and-Goliath story. [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]
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