Ever looked back on a part of your life and wonder, "did that really happen?" That is exactly the question I kept asking myself when I was writing this book When I was 50 years old I was just a driving instructor from a down to earth working class family with a Wife and two children. I was an ordinary man from Manchester who was brought up on a Cheshire Council estate and liked football, latin and ballroom dancing, playing guitar and a good laugh I still am an ordinary man but one with a very clear idea of what life is all about and it is not perhaps what you might think it is. My life...
Ever looked back on a part of your life and wonder, "did that really happen?" That is exactly the question I kept asking myself when I was writing thi...
As the British refocused their war on the southern colonies in the hopes of triggering an outbreak of loyalism that would sweep the rebels aside, Lord Cornwallis found himself thinly spread and unable to guard the fifteen thousand square miles he was responsible for.
So Cornwallis went on the offensive, invading North Carolina and using Camden as a launch pad. This new history reveals how Cornwallis was able to use his aggressive strategy to great effect and how the overconfidence of the American forces under Horatio Gates was to result in a shocking defeat on the night of August...
As the British refocused their war on the southern colonies in the hopes of triggering an outbreak of loyalism that would sweep the rebels aside, L...