Excerpt from Washington and Seventy-Six
The authors" first intention was to make this book a complete life of Washington. It was, however, found impossible to execute such a plan in a limited space without making the book a mere dry compendium of dates and events. They preferred, therefore, only to carry the story of the Republic and her great leader through the year 1776. Should the book be so fortunate as to interest those for whom it is written, it may be followed by other volumes. The story of our Revolutionary War is a history of endurance rather than of brilliant achievements and great successes. In reading the tale, especially as it is told by British historians, it seems as if the American cause had been saved almost as by a series of miracles, preserved in weakness, poverty, disunited councils, almost every possible misfortune, as if especially that this Nation might know that "the Lord, he is God," and that "there is none else beside Him."
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