Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor

Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor

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Mike OGara is 15 years old when he is sentenced to be transported to America aboard
a ship carrying other prisoners and bond slaves. When the ship is badly damaged and left
sinking by a horrendous storm, 9 men and Mike head for the Azores in a skiff with little water
and food. A few days later, a fish is caught and shared, while the bloody, oily guts are rubbed
on 5 of the sun burnt men, who later bathe in the water near the skiff. Sharks are attracted,
and the bathers are eaten.
After 19 days in the skiff, the 5 survivors are picked up by a British a merchant ship
headed for America.
At Fredricksburgh, Virginia, Mike stands on the auction block and is sold as an
indentured servant committed to 4 years labor at Newhart Plantation as a stable man. When
the Master of the plantation sees that his daughter is attracted to Mike, he enlists him in the
Virginia militia, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who has
been ordered to drive the French out of the fort they have established at the Forks of the Ohio
(Pittsburgh). This ignites what becomes The French and Indian War!
Although Mike is badly wounded, he recovers completely, goes through many dangerous
adventures and becomes Captain of General Washingtons bodyguard in the Revolutionary
War, when the Continental Army forces the British Army to board ships in Boston Harbor
and leave America.

GENRE
Histoire
SORTIE
2010
17 mai
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
261
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Xlibris
TAILLE
2,5
Mo