Osprey\'s Campaign title for the Siege of Yorktown (1781), which was part of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
He is married and lives in Surrey, UK..
Brendan has written several titles on this subject for Osprey, including Campaign 67 Saratoga 1777, and Campaign 37 Boston 1775.
He has a long-standing interest in military affairs and Anglo-American relations.
About the Author: Brendan Morrissey trained as a lawyer before working as a PR consultant and writer in the defence industry, principally with British Aerospace.
Yorktown would be a salutary lesson to the British Crown about the odds she now faced in holding on to her colonies.
Six years on from the British defeat by the New England militia at Boston, George Washington\'s rebuilt Continental Army - with support from the French - now systematically began to seek out and destroy British forces even if protected by seemingly impregnable defences.
By 1781 Britain\'s struggle to contain the rebels in her American colonies had reached an inglorious stalemate.
Osprey\'s Campaign title for the Siege of Yorktown (1781), which was part of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
