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Historical person
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s The Glorious Cause, the narrative follows Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, Lafayette and Charles Cornwallis through the campaigns that carry the conflict south and finally to Yorktown.
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
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The Seeds of America trilogy follows Isabel and Curzon, two young people fighting enslavement while Britain’s North American colonies fight for independence. Beginning in New York in 1776, continuing through Saratoga and the Valley Forge encampment, and ending at Yorktown in 1781, the novels connect their search for…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
