On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history. Chris Formant’s novel “Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and The Battle of Brooklyn” blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn. Join us for a discussion of “Saving Washington” and the events that inspired it with author Chris Formant in this edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI.