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eBook Category: Historical Fiction
eBook Description: The Neophyte Warrior series chronicles the adventures, romances, and growing pains of Virginia militiaman George Washington during the French and Indian War. Suffering from dysentery, the "bloody flux," George Washington rejoins Edward Braddock's expedition as an aide-de-camp, hoping it will be his steppingstone to a commission in the British army. But the military tactics that built the British Empire are a deadly mistake when the Braddock's company collides with a mixed force of French and Indians on the banks of the Monongahela, and more than one life will change before the battle ends.

eBook Publisher: Zumaya Publications/Zumaya Publications, Published: Zumaya Publications, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2004

This eBook is part of the following series:

• Richard Patton's Neophyte Warrior Series

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.1 MB], eReader (PDB) [352 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [348 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [303 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [1.0 MB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [335 KB], hiebook (KML) [732 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [409 KB], iSilo (PDB) [284 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [355 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [423 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [460 KB]
Words: 100529
Reading time: 287-402 min.
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"Author Richard Patton creates a powerful historical drama."--Cindy Penn, Senior Editor, Wordweaving

"If you love tales of adventure and at the same time want a novel with an erudite style and meticulous research then look no further. Richard Patton has certainly done his homework."--Rachel A. Hyde, MyShelf

"His Majesty's Envoy is a good beginning to what promises to be a solid historical fiction series."--Linda Ochsner, Historical Fiction Review

Exhausting as it was, Washington breathed deeply and forced himself to his full height. He was two or three inches taller than the Ottawa, who continued to stare at the ground, motionless.

"So, you sell scalps to the French, do you?" Washington probed. Though phrased as a question, it was nevertheless an accusation.

"Yes," Climbs-Like-Squirrel muttered grudgingly.

"Men, women, children. You murder them then you take their scalps to the French for what? Guns? Liquor?"

"We kill them, yes. They do not belong here," Climbs-Like-Squirrel said matter-of-factly. He had still not raised his eyes, but there was a new element in his speech--not quite defiance but a detached fatalism.

"You kill people because you think they do not belong, people who have not harmed you in any way?" Washington shouted, his anger rising.

"Mr. Washington, this is not appropriate?" Braddock cut in.

Washington raised his hand to indicate he understood and accepted the admonition. Braddock was right to chastise him. There was no point in appealing to this man's moral underpinnings. If he had any, they were of such an alien character as to be more of a barrier to communication than language.

"Are there more like you?" Washington said, liberally salting his words with scorn. He pushed his face to within an inch of the Ottawa's then added, "More cowards like you? Men who fight only the small and the weak, who will not confront an opponent except with two or three of his own at his side?"