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Independence - The Open Field
On a Sunday in June 1778, in heat that killed men where they stood, Washington’s reborn army finally caught the British in the open at Monmouth Court House. This is the story of the day the Continental Army proved it could stand. It nearly went the other way: sent to strike the British rear, General Charles Lee — brilliant, vain, and convinced Americans could never beat regulars in a stand-up fight — led an attack he didn’t believe in, and it collapsed into a chaotic retreat. Then Washington rode into the rout. What he said to Lee became one of the most famous confrontations in American…
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