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The Glorious Cause
by Jeff Shaara
Book 2 in the The American Revolutionary War series.
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After independence is declared, George Washington’s army is driven from New York and retreats across New Jersey as enlistments expire and political confidence weakens. The victories at Trenton and Princeton preserve the revolutionary cause, but the war continues through defeat at Brandywine, winter at Valley Forge and the difficult work of building a national army.
The novel follows Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, Lafayette and Charles Cornwallis through the campaigns that carry the conflict south and finally to Yorktown. Shaara connects battlefield survival with French diplomacy, civil government and the competing strategies of British commanders, showing that independence depended on endurance long after the first enthusiasm of rebellion.
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