Prelude To Glory - To Decide Our Destiny - Volume 3 in Series by Ron Carter

In the frigid winter marking the end of 1776 and the beginning of 1777, the Continental army is faced with the overwhelming truth that they are losing the Revolution. The British have pummeled them with a series of bloody battles that have ripped the Americans to tattered shreds and have driven them to a retreat so vast that it crosses two colony lines. The American camp, now crouching on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, is helpless as the British move more than three thousand Hessian soldiers into position. Only the black waters of the Delaware River prevent a total ruin. Only a desperate plan promises a chance of success.

Picking up the action where volume two left off, this third volume in the Prelude To Glory, To Decide Our Destiny, focuses on general George Washington as he is forced to make some of the hardest decisions of the Revolution if he is to salvage any hope for the future. With only one chance left to command his straggling and beaten army before the enlistments expire at the end of the year, Washington employs Billy Weems and Eli Stroud as spies and scouts, and formulates a daring plan that will make or break the war. The wide river that marks the end of a wild retreat now marks the beginning of an American offensive that catches the Americans as much by surprise as it does the British. In a torrential blizzard on Christmas Day, Washington and his army cross the Delaware river and march into history.

Throughout the battles of Trenton and Princeton, the discouraged soldiers soon find hope and success as events unfold under the touch of divine intervention. In this third volume, the familiar characters of Billy and Eli, along with the Dunson family and Mary Flint, again witness the dramatic events of the Revolutionary War.