Treegate
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In the American War for Independence, Peace of God Manly helps Benjamin Franklin gain an alliance for the Colonies with France by harassing British ships in their own waters.
"For the sake of bringing the long-drawn-out American War for Independence to a close, Peter Treegate endeavors to do the impossible. It is his task to bring together an alliance, albeit a temporary one, between feuding Scottish clans now settled in the Carolina hills. The end result is Treegate's Raiders, a fierce fighting force who take part in two of the small, but crucial battles that help to defeat the British, King's Mountain and Cowpens"--
Peter Treegate, apprentice to a maker of barrel staves in Boston in 1769, becomes a victim of his fellow apprentices and the uncertain times. Grades 6-8.
In 1775 Boston as the Revolutionary war escalates, sixteen-year-old Peter Treegate finds himself caught in the middle of a struggle for his love and loyalty between the patriot father from whom he had long been separated and the Scottish highlander who brought him up to avenge the Scots defeat at Culloden.