Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Modified the Course of the Revolution

By the award-winning creator of Canine Firm: a historic account of a Revolutionary Conflict unit’s “tactical acumen and human drama . . . fight writing at its finest” (The Wall Road Journal).

 

In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a disastrous finish. Common George Washington discovered his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered on the Battle of Brooklyn. However because of a collection of determined prices by a single heroic regiment, famously referred to as the “Immortal 400,” Washington was capable of evacuate his males and the nascent Continental Military lived to struggle one other day.

 

In 
Washington’s Immortals, award-winning army historian Patrick Okay. O’Donnell brings to life the forgotten story of those exceptional males. Comprised of wealthy retailers, tradesmen, and free blacks, they fought not simply in Brooklyn, however in key battles together with Trenton, Princeton, Camden, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown, the place their heroism modified the course of the struggle.

 

Drawing on in depth authentic sources, from letters to diaries to pension functions, O’Donnell items collectively the tales of those courageous males—their friendships, loves, defeats, and triumphs. He explores their techniques, their struggles with hostile loyalists and shortages of clothes and meals, their improvement into an elite unit, and their dogged opponents, together with British Common Lord Cornwallis.

 

By the prism of this one unit, O’Donnell tells the bigger story of the Revolutionary Conflict.

 

“Properly-written, and fantastically researched . . . A must-read for Revolutionary Conflict and Maryland historical past buffs alike.” —Invoice Hughes, 
Baltimore Submit-Examiner