<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Three times John Glover’s Marblehead fishermen saved Washington’s army; in a final battle, the “amphibious regiment” rowed him to victory across the Delaware</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Had a tempest not thwarted his plans, George Washington might have lost the Revolution in the first major operation he commanded</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Just what moved those Revolutionary War officers to form the Society of the Cincinnati, America’s first veterans’ organization? Some said it was treason</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.</span> </p>
<p>Credited with shouting “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” at Bunker Hill, he was perhaps the most experienced general in the American army. But “Old Put” was not without his faults.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> Who today remembers John Paulding, Isaac Van Wert, or<br />
David Williams? Yet for a century they were renowned as the<br />
rustic militiamen who captured Major John André</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> and how, a decade after the Revolution, a melodramatic rescue attempt, involving a grateful young American, went awry</span> </span></p>
<p>He was Irish, but with neither the proverbial charm nor the luck. Generals are not much known for the former quality, but the latter, as Napoleon suggested, is one no successful commander can be without. And John Sullivan was an officer whom luck simply passed by.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Encamped above the Hudson for the last, hard winter of the Revolution, the officers of the Continental Army began to talk mutiny. It would be up to their harried commander to defend the most precious principle of the infant nation—the supremacy of civilian rule</span> . </span></p>
