Saving Washington's Army

The Brilliant Last Stand of General John Glover at the Battle of Pell's Point, New York, October 18, 1776

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD

Narrated by: Tom Campbell

Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

General William Howe and the mighty British-Hessian Army possessed the golden opportunity to cut-off, trap, and then destroy General George Washington's Army before he could retreat north and escape from Harlem Heights, New York, when he landed his army at Pell's Point north of New York City. Howe's bold amphibious operation north of Washington's Army threatened to end the life of the Continental Army and the revolution. However, the brilliant delaying actions of Colonel John Glover and a small force of New England Continental troops saved the day and Washington's Army by preventing Howe's advance inland to intercept Washington's route of retreat to White Plains.

Employing brilliant delaying tactics when outnumbered by more than five to one, Glover inflicted heavy losses on the attackers to ensure that Washington's Army survived to fight another day. Ironically, the Battle of Pell's Point has been perhaps the most important forgotten battle of the entire American Revolution.

In Saving Washington's Army, renowned historian Phillip Thomas Ticker, PhD, recounts the little-known story of the Battle of Pell's Point and the heroism of Colonel John Glover with the care and attention-to-detail for which he is known.

©2022 Phillip Thomas Tucker (P)2023 Tantor

Can’t finish it. It’s awful.

I don’t quit on books, but I’m done with this one. The author is redundant and repetitive to the point of turning a story into a meaningless churn that is impossible to fight through. The author’s attacks on Washington are made with a repetitive and haughty attitude, seemingly oblivious that Washington’s lack of tactical prowess is, in fact, well known. The author’s repeated and detailed descriptions of Marblehead men as some sort of para-marine supermen that not only won this battle but all the others as well… gets old. The descriptions of the moonlight (on a 30% illum night? Interesting…) and Glover’s uniform (because he was the best dressed American officer and so on and on and on).

I’d want to finish this book, because the Battle of New York is a fascinating, and the battlefields are essentially lost to urban sprawl. I want this to be a good book, or at worst, not so awful that I can fight my way through it. I can’t. It’s that bad. I feel bad for the narrator.