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The furies / by Jakes, John, 1932- ;
Subjects: Epic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Kent family (Fictitious characters); Sieges;
© [1977?] c1976., N. Doubleday,
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Yorktown; the winning of American independence. by Davis, Burke,1913-;
Bibliography: p. 179-182.Describes the siege of Yorktown which caused Lord Cornwallis and his British troops to surrender to General Washington and his Continental Army.
© [1969], Harper & Row
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Fall of Singapore / by Stein, R. Conrad.; Messer, Robert L.,1944-;
Details the bloody defeat of the supposedly impregnable Singapore by the Japanese in 1942, an event which signaled the end of European colonial empires in the Far East.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c1982, Childrens Press,
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The story of the surrender at Yorktown / by Kent, Zachary.;
Recounts the last military campaign of the Revolutionary War which culminated in the surrender of Cornwallis' men to the French and Americans in 1781.
© c1989., Childrens Press,
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Yorktown / by Weber, Michael,1945-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [60]) and index.Focuses on the last major battle of the American Revolution after which the British forces under General Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans in October 1781.
© c1997., Twenty-First Century Books,
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Siege of Leningrad / by Stein, R. Conrad.;
Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c1983., Childrens Press,
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Tomahawks and trombones / by Mitchell, Barbara,1941-; Overlie, George.;
Related how a group of Moravians, living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, around 1755, used heavenly music to defeat the Delaware Indians.
Subjects: Moravians; Delaware Indians; Moravians; Delaware Indians; Indians of North America;
© c1982., Carolrhoda Books,
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The road to Yorktown. by Mitchell, Broadus, 1892-1988. ;
Describes the events of the British surrender to the American forces at Yorktown in 1781.Bibliography: p. [123]-124.
© [1971], McGraw-Hill
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Yorktown / by Lee, Susan,1939-; Lee, John,1923-; Norman, Michael.ill.;
Chronicles the execution of Washington's plan that trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown and won the Revolution for the Americans.
© [1975], Childrens Press,
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The men of Gonzales. by Culp, John H. ;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Sieges;
© 1960., W. Sloane Associates,
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