The Fort
Cornwell, Bernard![The Fort](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/101/10130594/CHSBZCOP0310130594.jpg)
In the summer of 1779, as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South, a British force consisting of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry and backed by three sloops-of-war sails to the fogbound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts, the Scots harry rebel privateers and shelter American loyalists. In response, the Americans send more than for...