Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and The Battle of Brooklyn

by Chris Formant

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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 naïve 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.
  • ISBN10 1682618323
  • ISBN13 9781682618325
  • Publish Date 21 February 2019 (first published 19 February 2019)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 October 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Permuted Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English