Gunpowder For The General

Four young men band together from childhood to forge an unbreakable team in this stirring historical novel. They set out to make and deliver black powder to General Washington's crippled Continental Army before the campaigning season of 1778. Beset by loyalists, outlaws, bears, winter snows, and redcoats, they fight their way through the wilderness of western Pennsylvania and back to deliver four wagon loads of gunpowder at the start of the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. Their magical concoction helps to turn the battle and force the British from the field. The four men in their early twenties - an Irish Catholic, a Native American, a free Black, and a Chinese lad whose father taught them the secrets of making gunpowder - prove that friendship and loyalty can overpower racial prejudice and bias.