The Declaration, the Sword, and the Spy by Jenny L. Cote

Author:Jenny L. Cote
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AMG Publishers
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

DON’T TREAD ON ME

THE WAR ROOM, AUGUST 9, 1775

Liz blinked rapidly as she reemerged into the War Room. She needed to retrieve Vergennes’s instructions for Bonvouloir and deliver them safely to the French ambassador’s desk in London. As her eyes came into focus, there stood Max, Nigel, Clarie, and Gillamon. “Bonjour, mes amis. This is a delightful surprise!”

“How were Fr-r-rance, Kate, an’ Lafayette?” Max asked, wagging his tail.

“It was a joy to return to my beloved France!” Liz beamed, curling her tail around her feet. “Kate sends her love. Gillamon, I now understand why Lafayette has been chosen for this point in history. As soon as he heard about America’s struggle for liberté, he immediately offered up his sword to fight for her. Kate and I simply adore him! And we know America will, too.”

Nigel preened his whiskers. “Gillamon told us that you and Kate witnessed the first of three dinners that will be pivotal in Lafayette’s life’s purpose.”

“Oui, it was an exquisite ‘princely dinner of light’! Gillamon, might I assume that the second dinner, ‘a knightly dinner of swords,’ is to be with George Washington and his generals?” Liz asked.

“Indeed you might, Liz,” Gillamon answered with a smile. He and Clarie were in their natural forms of a mountain goat and a lamb. “Max, you will be with Kate for the second dinner, but that is for a future time.”

“I’ll look forward ta that date with me lass,” Max answered with a wide grin, wagging his tail.

“For now, I want you to hear some exciting news about Patrick Henry,” Gillamon announced. He nodded to Clarie.

Clarie tapped the single panel of time on the wall and the image of Henrico Parish Church in Richmond, Virginia, came into view. Men were seated in the same room where Patrick Henry months before had given his famous Liberty or Death speech at the Second Virginia Convention. Peyton Randolph was seated at the front of the room in his role as President.

“Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Pendleton, and Benjamin Harrison left Philadelphia when the Second Continental Congress adjourned, and have just arrived here for the Third Virginia Convention,” Clarie explained. “Governor Dunmore fled Williamsburg with his family in mid-June, afraid of the backlash of the people following the gunpowder incident. He is so paranoid he refuses to leave the safety of the Fowey anchored in Yorktown, and sends messengers to communicate his intentions. He has threatened to pillage the Tidewater area, so this convention has been called to prepare for the defense of the colony.”

Gillamon nodded. “The era of royal rule is over and the Virginia House of Burgesses no longer exists. The elected Virginia Convention is now the acting government of the colony, and has been meeting here since July 17th. Their first order of business was to raise a regular army as directed by the Continental Congress. After much debate they have approved the immediate raising of two regiments of one thousand regular soldiers each. They also have divided the colony into sixteen districts in order to restructure Virginia’s militia.

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