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While the major fighting of the 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 desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base
at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the
Scots--the only British troops between Canada and New York--harry rebel privateers and
give shelter to American loyalists.

In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand
infantrymen to captivate, kill or destroy the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg
Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General
Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders.

But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat--and have stunning repercussions
for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John
Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot
named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice.

Grounded firmly in history, inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style,
The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and
a nation in the making.

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