George Washington’s Gamble wasn’t just a military campaign. It was a calculated risk that frontier destruction could save the Revolution itself. But what happens when victory depends not on conquering armies, but on burning fields and breaking a people’s ability to survive? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Washington’s Gamble – The Sullivan–Clinton Campaign,” to discover why the fate of America may have turned on the scorched villages of Greater Western New York.
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