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eBook Category: Historical Fiction
eBook Description: Twenty two year old George Washington was pleased by his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel and quite content to be the second-in-command of Governor Robert Dinwiddie's expedition to remove the French from the Ohio Valley. But now, Joshua Fry, the mission's elderly commanding officer, was dead in a fall from his horse and Washington has suddenly become the Reluctant Commander of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field in the Allegheny Mountains called Great Meadows. Book Two of the Neophyte Warrior series continues the story of a young man beleaguered by the onerous duties of his office and by the tribulations of a land about to erupt in conflict. The battle at Great Meadows will be the opening salvo of the French and Indian War and the military debut of the young man who is about to have his first, but certainly not his last, baptism of fire. The Neophyte Warrior series chronicles the adventures, romances, and growing pains of a Virginia militiaman George Washington during the French and Indian War.

eBook Publisher: Zumaya Publications/Zumaya Publications, Published: Zumaya Publications, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2002

This eBook is part of the following series:

• Richard Patton's Neophyte Warrior Series

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Reading time: 306-428 min.
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As he scanned Great Meadows for a sign of the enemy, George Washington recalled that he had once referred to it as "a charming field for an encounter." He had reason to rethink that opinion as a steady downpour flooded the small, circular stockade that one of his officers had laughingly dubbed "Fort Necessity" and his ally, the Iroquois Half-King, referred to as "that little thing in the meadow."

"Colonel, the frog-eaters are here! The frog-eaters are here!" cried a panicky voice.

Washington whirled around to see a limping, bloodstained Michael Scully retreating to the Virginia lines. Then an orderly, ominous line of French marines emerged from the woods and, with it, an even more menacing phalanx of Great Lakes Indians.

The enemy has graciously arrived for Commander Washington's inaugural military engagement in Book Two of the Neophyte Warrior series*. The war to control the North American continent has begun.