SAR Seeks Member Participation in Q & A with Author Jim Stempel
The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777
SAR Seeks Member Participation in Q & A with Author Jim Stempel
SAR Outreach Education is pleased to announce an upcoming pre-recorded video interview with award-winning author Jim Stempel on his new book The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777. SAR membership is invited to be a part of this exciting book review by submitting questions to the author for this Q & A. What questions do you have about the New Jersey Campaign? How did this campaign help turn the tide of the war? Please submit your question for Jim Stempel by March 24, 2023, by emailing Rae Ann Sauer at rsauer@sar.org and include your national number in the email. The top three (3) member-submitted questions chosen by the author will receive a complimentary copy of the book. Due to time limits, not all questions will be chosen. Once the interview is complete it will be posted on the SAR website and Facebook page on April 13, and the book winners will be announced and notified. Education Committee Chairman Brooks Lyles will moderate this event.
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About the Book & Author:
In late December 1776, the American War of Independence appeared to be on its last legs. General George Washington’s continental forces had been reduced to a shadow of their former strength, the British Army had chased them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, and enlistments for many of the rank and file would be up by month’s end. Desperate times call for desperate measures, however, and George Washington responded to this crisis with astonishing audacity. On Christmas night 1776, he recrossed the Delaware as a nor’easter churned up the coast, burying his small detachment under howling sheets of snow and ice. Undaunted, they attacked a Hessian brigade at Trenton, New Jersey, taking the German auxiliaries by complete surprise. Then, only three days later, Washington struck again, crossing the Delaware, slipping away from the British at Trenton, and attacking the Redcoats at Princeton—to their utter astonishment.
The British, now back on their heels, retreated toward New Brunswick as Washington’s reinvigorated force followed them north into Jersey. Over the next eight months, Washington’s continentals and the state militias of New Jersey would go head-to-head with the British in a multitude of small-scale actions and large-scale battles, eventually forcing the British to flea New Jersey by sea. In this captivating narrative of the American War of Independence, author Jim Stempel brings to life one of the most violent, courageous, yet virtually forgotten periods of the Revolutionary War. Sure to enthrall professional historians and book lovers of all stripes, The Enemy Harassed is scholarly history presented in an accessible style anyone can enjoy.
Jim Stempel is a speaker and author of ten books and numerous articles regarding American history, warfare, and spirituality. He resides in rural Maryland with his wife and family.
