Noble Undertaking - Volume 2: The Continental Congress and the American Revolution, 1778¿84

The story of the Continental Congress from 1778-just after it secured an alliance with France-to 1794, when the War of Independence ended. Letters and documents reveal how the new nation-s improvisational government struggled to hold the union and the alliance together and avert financial ruin amidst war, treachery, and troop mutinies.