I am pleased to announce a new book of mine to be released February 2023 regarding a little-known campaign during the American Revolution. The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777 explores one of the most consequential years during America’s War of Independence. Beginning with Washington’s legendary Christmas night passage of the Delaware River, and the stunning defeat of the Hessians at Trenton, the book catalogs the subsequent eight months of continuous fighting that raged across New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
In the fall of 1776, after a decisive victory in New York, the British army marched across New Jersey, robbing, looting, and pillaging with impunity. They erected winter posts to oversee the countryside they believed pacified. A mere seven months later, they had been run out of their posts, attacked wherever they marched, and forced to embark by the sea to flee a state that had become a bloodbath for them. Lost between Washington’s stunning victory at Trenton and his later campaign to defend Philadelphia, The Enemy Harassed chronicles in a compelling narrative format one of the bloodiest, violent, yet strategically significant periods of the American Revolution.
Published by Knox Press, an imprint of Post Hill Press, one of the foremost publishers of history, military history, and conservative thought – and distributed through Simon & Schuster, The Enemy Harassed will reach a broad audience of readers fascinated by the real story of our nation’s founding. Countless engagements raged across New Jersey during this period, profoundly impacting the war. Indeed, during this critical campaign, the British suffered far more casualties than they had suffered during their entire New York Campaign of 1776, although this fact remains largely unknown. Great history written as a compelling story, The Enemy Harassed, will fill a hole in American Revolutionary literature while appealing to historians and general readers alike.
