<p> While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to &#147;captivate, kill or destroy&#148; the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat&#151;and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere.</p> <p> Inimitably told in Cornwell&#146;s thrilling narrative style, <i>The Fort</i> is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.</p>