| Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and the Battle of Brooklyn Contributor(s): Formant, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1682618773 ISBN-13: 9781682618776 Publisher: Permuted Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - General |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2019299858 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Saving Washington Film Rights Optioned by Producer of HBO's Big Little Lies The lost story of "America's 400 Spartans"--an army of unexpected heroes who changed the course of history. On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from na ve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history: "America's 400 Spartans." Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben Wright, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth. Chris Formant's gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn. |