The Fort (novel)

The Fort
Cover of the first UK edition
Author Bernard Cornwell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Historical Novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
30 September 2010
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 480 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN 978-0-00-733172-7 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC 636905232

The Fort is a historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell which relates to the events of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War.[1] It is centered on the efforts of the British to establish and hold the fort against superior numbers of American patriots, and it contrasts the actions of two men, John Moore, who later laid the foundations of the light infantry doctrine used by the 95th Rifles and others against the French in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and Paul Revere, hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. Cornwell portrays Revere as an insubordinate, unreliable, and selfish character.

Publication

  • The book was released on 30 September 2010 in the United Kingdom.[2]

References

  1. "Bernard Cornwell - The Author's Official Site - Sharpe Books dot com". Bernard Cornwell.net. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
  2. "The Fort (Book) by Bernard Cornwell (2010)". Waterstones. Retrieved 2010-07-03.


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