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SynopsisChapter titles include: Introduction 1. After Prayer, Hurricane Scatters Enemy Fleet 2. Washington Had 4 Bullets through His Coat, yet Unharmed 3. The Boston Tea Party, Harbor Blocked & Jefferson's "Fasting" Resolution 4. Battles of Lexington & Concord 5. Battle of Bunker Hill6. Cannons and Violent Storms Make British Evacuate Boston 7. Dense Fog Appears, Allowing 8,000 Troops to Escape 8. In Their Lowest State, Washington "Inspired By Heaven" Leads to Victory 9. Victory at Saratoga 10. Winter at Valley Forge 11. Treacherous Scheme of Benedict Arnold Exposed Just In Time 12. River Waters Rise Miraculously and Stop Royal Army 13. When Leaders of All Denominations Prayed Together 14. When Adams Declared A Day of Fasting and Prayer 15. Barbary Pirate Wars 16. Captain Perry Declares "The Prayers of My Wife Are Answered!" 17. More British Troops Killed By A Tornado Than American Firearms 18. Star Spangled Banner Written In Response to Miraculous Victory 19. In God We Trust 20. Hand of Providence Shields Americans from Bombs and Rockets 21. Davy Crockett Disarms Assailant Trying To Kill Andrew Jackson 22. Cholera Epidemic Deaths Drop Suddenly After Prayer 23. Freak Accident Changes Course of Civil War Days after Prayer 24. Clara Barton Prays, Saves Soldiers, and Begins the Red Cross 25. World War I turns to Victory for the Americans 26. George W. Carver's Answered Prayers Save Southern Economy 27. Prayer for the Great Depression to End 28. A Break in the Clouds at the Precise Moment Leads to Victory 29. Weather Clears after Patton's 250,000 Troops Pray 30. President Truman Thanks God for World War II Victory 31. Faith During the Korean War 32. Prayer During Apollo Missions Conclusion - Prayer For Miracles in America Today, Discover desperate circumstances in America's past and how men and women rose up with faith and courage and situations unexplainably turned around. Read of captivating, little-known stories during the French & Indian War, Revolution, Barbary Pirate War, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI & II, and up through Apollo 13. Learn "the rest of the story" of how leaders prayed, challenged and inspired the nation and disaster was averted YOU will be inspired as you uncover "Miracles in American History - 32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer." ARE you aware of these past crises when America's fate hung in the balance? In 1746, 70 ships with 13,000 troops sailed from France to lay waste to the American colonies. Massachusetts Governor William Shirley proclaimed a Day of Fasting. What happened next was unexplainable After the Battle of Monongahela, George Washington wrote from Fort Cumberland to his younger brother, John Augustine Washington, July 18, 1755: But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me How did Thomas Jefferson's resolution for a Day of Fasting on June 1, 1774, lead to the forming of the Continental Congress, and eventually Independence? Read how in 1781 the providential rising of three rivers in 10 days allowed Americans to escape British General Cornwallis? Or how the uncanny way Benedict Arnold's planned betrayal of West Point was discovered? George Washington exclaimed: "The Hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this (the course of the war) that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith." Ben Franklin declared: "In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain...we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection...All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending Providence in our favor." In 1865, President Lincoln proclaimed a Day of Fasting for April 30. What freak accident happened two days later which changed the course of the Civil War? What did Woodrow Wilson declared as the U.S. entered WWI. Or Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression? Or FDR, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton during WWII? Or Truman during the Korean War? When Apollo 13 was lost in space, what happened after President Nixon called all of America to pray? Are you aware of these American Miracles? Find out as you read "Miracles in American History - 32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer."