Speaker: Patrick K. O’Donnell, Award-Winning Military Historian and Author In August 1776, the month after America’s Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, George Washington’s troops had been outmanned and outmaneuvered. Fortunately for the young nation, a series of desperate charges by 400 men in the 1st Maryland Regiment, famously known as the “Immortal 400,” enabled the Continental army to fight on. In Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution, O’Donnell revives the forgotten story of these remarkable merchants, tradesmen, indentured servants, and free blacks. A book signing will follow the presentation. Presented by the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati.