American Revolution War

Sixteen-year-old twins Ambrose and John Clark, who have helped the fight for freedom by assisting their father and even accomplishing a mission for George Washington himself are faced with more dangerous challenges. Now the boys must work together with bravery and courage to help the cause of independence. As they bravely, and sometimes impetuously search for the culprit, hoping to make him pay, they must also make a life-changing decision—to follow Major Tallmadge’s lead and train as Dragoon’s in the Continental Army or accept scholarships to Yale.

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin… The end times are coming.

1775: Overlooked Heroines focuses entirely on ordinary women who broke away from their social constraints to become soldiers, spies, and heroines in the American Revolutionary War. These women physically fought for America to be free from colonial imperialism, but yet society fails to recant their names. 1775: Overlooked Heroines fills in the gaps of history and places these women back into the historical narrative, whose names are less celebrated and are overshadowed or misattributed simply because they are women.

Shot Through Time April 19, 1775, British regiments from the Boston area march to Concord and Lexington in search of weapons and ammunition hidden by Colonials. The regiments are ambushed on their return. Sergeant Noland Black is shot, falls unconscious, and awakes in the same place, but on April 19, 1975, exactly 200 years into the future and not far from an ongoing reenactment. .

The life and times of the Scottish Highlanders during the American Revolution on the Cape Fear River, in North Carolina.

A historical fiction book set in New York during the late 18th century. "The Shadow of Betrayal" immerses you in the tumultuous world of 1780s New York, where the American Revolutionary War rages and loyalties shift like the tides. In this gripping historical fiction, betrayal, honor, and the intense struggles of soldiers come to life through unforgettable characters and heart-wrenching scenes. The novel opens with Captain Dick Page celebrating his 22nd birthday alongside Lieutenant Jack Edmonds in the dilapidated setting of Dirck van Ditteraick’s tavern. Their disheartened spirits ...

Joseph Plumb Martin (1760-1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Martin participated in the Battles of Brooklyn, the White Plains and Monmouth, and the siege of Fort Mifflin, and the Battle of Monmouth. The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier relates the adventures of a young private serving his country under terrible conditions. There are engaging accounts of army life, adventures, dangers, and suffering during the years 1776-1783.

A historical Christian Romance set at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. A stranger, who goes by the name Head of Stone, stumbles into the cabin where Martha Dawson and Phillip and Elizabeth McCray live. He was raised by the Lenape since he was a child. His mission is to avenge the death of his Lenape wife Moshanna. In a twist of fate, new information about Head of Stone’s past comes to light and he decides to stay with the McCray household for the time being. While he is there, the ragtag, nearly frozen, nearly starved Continental Army stumbles into the nearby fields. To the north, a political ...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British Empire in 1776, 10 percent of the population of their fledgling country were from Ireland. By 1790, close to 500,000 Irish citizens had immigrated to America. They were very active in the American Revolution, both on the battlefields and off, yet their stories are not well known. The important contributions of the Irish on military, political, and economic levels have been long overlooked and ignored by generations of historians.

Thomas Morrison and his younger brother, John, leave their home in Virginia to explore the land along the mighty Mohawk River. Their travels eventually lead them to Stone Arabia, a village in New York's Mohawk Valley. In awe of ite beauty and with loyality to the settlers. Thomas and John set down their roots in this valley, but their aspiration of a peaceful life by the Mohawk River is not so easily attained. The French and British governments each have designs on the area for their own financial gain. The French forms an alliance with numerous local Indian tribes, and the historic French ...

For this mission, they’ll risk their lives. For each other, they’ll risk their hearts. Buddy Rider's little Cessna spotter aircraft was shot down twice over the jungles of Vietnam, and ten years later he’s flying crop dusters for a living while tinkering with an old WWII transport aircraft. He avoids the painful memories of the war, the bad times, and the loss of friends, until a young woman comes to his aircraft hangar in search of him. Elizabeth Anderson is a lay nun dedicated to aiding the helpless, and her immediate task is to rescue fellow missionaries and orphans trapped in war-...

A Daring Rescue Mission in Dangerous Territory! Spring 1778 at Valley Forge: George Washington’s army has survived the freezing and starvation of winter. Provisions and supplies are arriving regularly. Von Steuben is busy training the soldiers to take on the British when they leave Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Washington has a problem on his hands. In the aftermath of the Battle of Saratoga, Captain John Henry, the son of Virginia’s governor, Patrick Henry, frustrated in love and disillusioned by the bloodiness of the war, has left his post in General Gates’s army and is wandering ...

In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental Army.

For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights.

On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the president in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic.

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time, but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was 51. He lived another 33 eventful years, serving as America's advocate in London, Pennsylvania's representative in the Continental Congress, and America's wartime ambassador to France. Now, at last, we get the rest of the story, in Franklin's own words.

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard ‘round the world” to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington & Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses.

The James River, one of America’s most storied waterways, is far more than a ribbon of water threading through the heart of Virginia. It is a living witness to centuries of human endeavor, natural resilience, conflict, and renewal. From its origins in the Allegheny Mountains to its wide, tidal mouth at the Chesapeake Bay, the river has shaped the history, culture, and livelihoods of the people who have settled along its banks. This eBook traces the remarkable stories of the James River — a river that gave life to early Native American civilizations, cradled the birth of English America ...

Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding soldier. Alfred Young shows us why she did it and exactly how she carried it off. He meticulously reconstructs her early life as an indentured servant; her young adulthood as a weaver, teacher, and religious rebel; and her military career in the light infantry—followed by service as an orderly to a general at West Point.

Journeyman: A Brighter Sunshine of Their Own is the fourth novel in the award-winning Journeyman Chronicles of the American Revolution. In the fall of 1780, the American cause in the South is teetering on the edge of collapse. The Continental Army has been shattered at Camden, and the future of the Revolution hangs by a thread. Lieutenant Colonel Will Yelverton and his loyal companion Charles Cuthbert answer the call of duty. Their mission: to support the daring guerrilla campaign of the legendary Swamp Fox, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Marion. Will and Cuth ride with Marion’s rag-tag ...