Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of his excellency General Washington. If one reads this volume in the spirit which actuated the author himself when he wrote it, he cannot fail to gain a deeper realization of the significance of the events which helped to shape the early affairs of our country and to feel a keener and more personal interest in maintaining the fundamental principles which were fought for by the men and women of colonial times whose loyal and heroic actions are bodied forth in this story.