The Fate of the Day

When Independence Hung in the Balance (2025) examines the critical middle period of the American Revolution, when George Washington's struggling Continental Army battled the era's supreme military power while a colonial uprising expanded into an international conflict. Through detailed scholarship, this work examines how the Revolution's grueling middle years pushed both the Continental Army's resolve and the young democracy's obligations to its people, eventually turning an amateur fighting force into an army that could challenge British imperial might.