A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.
Meg, an innkeeper's daughter, as tall as the tallest man in Westminister, puts on her father's clothes and joins the British army setting out to invade France led by the King himself.
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves. Illustrated with drawings and maps depicting the period.
A Vermont youth becomes involved with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys despite his father's Tory leanings in the early days of the Revolutionary War.
In 1775, thirteen-year-old Doone Ramsey flees to the Bay of Fundy side of Nova Scotia to escape the British press gangs and joins the rebels in the fight for independence from Great Britain.
