<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> From Fort Ticonderoga to the Plaza Hotel, from Appomattox Courthouse to Bugsy Siegel’s weird rose garden in Las Vegas, the present-day scene is enriched by knowledge of the American past</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The largest army ever assembled in North America at the time attacked the French at New York’s Fort Carillon, with disastrous results.</span></p>
