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The perils of peace : America's struggle for survival after Yorktown by Thomas J Fleming
"The victory at Yorktown in 1781 was the beginning of the end, but not the end of the Revolution. General George Washington understood that the war could still be lost. After Yorktown, historian Thomas Fleming recounts, the French navy sailed back to the West Indies. England still had 25,000 troops to the rebels' 6,000. Squabbles boiled over in Congress, the national treasury was empty, and unrest among unpaid American officers nearly capsized the cause...."- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
"The victory at Yorktown in 1781 was the beginning of the end, but not the end of the Revolution. General George Washington understood that the war could still be lost. After Yorktown, historian Thomas Fleming recounts, the French navy sailed back to the West Indies. England still had 25,000 troops to the rebels' 6,000. Squabbles boiled over in Congress, the national treasury was empty, and unrest among unpaid American officers nearly capsized the cause...."- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation