They had been driven from their homes by Indians and their Tory allies after a cruel battle. Braving sixty miles of wilderness, the survivors struggled to safety, many of them perishing in the unforgiving wilderness. Barely a month later they brave the wilderness and their fierce foes again to reclaim their land-and therefore their lives. Not only do they return, but they strike at the heart of their stunned foes through three hundred miles of untamed wildreness. Read of their struggle against the greatest empire in the world, the British Empire, and the greatest Indian confederacy in North...

Johnny Farrell, barely seventeen, joined the Union Army nine months before he and his fellows find themselves in the raging tide of battle in the famous Peach Orchard at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on North American soil on July 1,2,3, 1863, mid-way through the greatest and bloodiest war in American history.His regiment, made up of kith and kin from his own county in the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania, stood fast on the bloody field, until literally pushed from the field by overwhelming numbers of Confederates. His is a true story of valor and...

This is a true and gripping account of one of the most bloodiest battles in the Amercian Revolution. Settlers from Connecticut brave the wilderness to etch a haven out of the endless forest some sixty miles beyond any other settlements. Here they fight Indians, British, and Pennamites for the right to exist, much as the new nation to which they pledge their undying allegience, and participate in its fight to be born. Its citizen soldiers fight in many a conflict of that war, and finally fight on their own doorsteps when the forces of that conflict finally descend upon them in their haven in...

A young boy finds himself sitting in a huddled fort some eighty miles from the nearest friendly settlement after a horrible battle has wiped out almost every able-bodied man defending their settlement along the Susquehanna River. Nearly four hundred brave souls marched out the fort to meet the invading hordes of British and Indians striking them from the north, but barely thirty return, most of them wounded and terrified. Many mothers immediately mourn for all they have lost in one fleeting half-hour of battle. Many stumble along trance-like in the crowded fort, praying and wringing their...

Ordinary people overcomming extraordinary odds. It is the test and true measure of as people, and at no time was the test so cruel or measure so hard to obtain than in the Wyoming Valley during the American Revolutionary War. This is the true story of a people overcomming impossible odds and in the end emerging victorious, cherishing virtues such as faith and hope, which in turn help forge them and form that incredible spirit, the American spirit. Nowhere is a nation's virtues more refined than in its begginnings. This story in a insight into that spirit, that nation, for these people, though...

Gettysburg has certain place in American history. A history woven through the threads of time. Some threads, stained with the blood of great struggles, certainly shine more intensely than others, such is Gettysburg. As one follows those threads of time they expose certain ironies, ironies which perhaps lead us to a greater understanding of the ture nature of history and the lessons it whispers to us across time. Here, at Gettysburg, where two great American armies will meet to finally come to grips with the great growing pains which had plagued America for the first eighty years of its...