Charlotte is unhappy when her parents send her, for safety reasons, to live with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore in 1812, but in the dangerous days of siege by the British, Charlotte earns the respect of her high-society relatives and the love of a wonderful man.
The United States is facing war once again in 1812, with James and Dolley Madison, Andrew and Rachel Jackson, and an assortment of other statesmen, heroes, and ordinary men and women ready to take a stand for the fledgling nation.
After her father is killed and her home burnt to the ground, Rosie has no choice but to leave with the American privateer in search of the British captain who kidnapped his brother.
Describes the Battle of Thames River in Ontario, Canada in October of 1813 during the War of 1812, in which the Shawnee warrior chief, Tecumseh, fights against the Americans hoping to forge an alliance with the British.
