Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.
Fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper eagerly joins the action of the Revolutionary War, but when his father is killed by British soldiers one April morning, Adam is forced to confront the harsh realities of war.
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British.
