Tales From a Revolution: Pennsylvania
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Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 238
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 238
After the worst night of his life, Isaac doesn't know if he can save either his marriage or the cause of American Independence. With the British closing in on Philadelphia, he has no time to waste in either attempt!
A man on a mission, Isaac Melcher rode into the familiar streets of Philadelphia, glad to see them little changed, despite his absence of nearly six months. He was in a familiar role, but on the largest stage he had yet inhabited, carrying dispatches of the progress of a crucial undertaking -- but this time, instead of bringing them to Colonel Arnold, he was to deliver word directly to Congress itself.
READ MOREIf it were good news, the job would be a pleasant diversion from the grinding hardship of the past months. As it was, he feared that all of the terrible sacrifices borne by the expedition under Colonel Arnold's brilliant leadership would be forgotten in the disappointment that was sure to follow the delivery of the news he carried.
The loss of men was expected, naturally -- everyone signing on to follow Arnold from Cambridge had known all too well that their number would be thinned, whether by British bullets, accidents, or privation on the journey northward to Québec, or that perennial killer of soldiers since the first invention of warfare, ignominious disease of one sort or another.
Less expected were the incredible conditions that a thousand men had been forced to endure, as they traversed the untracked and brutal wilderness from their landing at Kennebunk on the untamed shores of the northern portion of the Massachusetts Bay colony, all the way up to Québec.
With a forceful effort of will, Isaac pushed aside the sour memories that threatened to overwhelm him and focused on picking his way across the beautiful cobblestones of his hometown, to the hall where Congress was meeting.
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