Valley of Choice Trilogy by Olivia Newport

Author:Olivia Newport [Newport, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63409-196-1
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Philadelphia fell before the end of the month. The day the news reached him, Jacob sat up alone in the middle of the night pondering its implications. British troops, with ample gunpowder, marched the streets where his parents had met and where his sister now lived.

Jacob tapped the table with one finger. He was not going to give up. He had what he needed for a small batch of powder in the iron kettle behind the tannery. In the morning he would carry coals from his own kitchen to light the fire and heat the saltpeter to crystals. He had plenty of lye for boiling the brimstone in linen rags, and red cedar was stacked up outside the tannery for burning. Pounding the mixture into dust would take days.

Jacob rubbed a thumb against the edge of the table, remembering the feel of the silky fine powder that would result from his labors. Perhaps he would use the saltpeter to make a smaller but more powerful batch. He might not have as much as he wished, but General Washington was welcome to whatever he did have. Jacob liked to imagine his gunpowder causing the explosion that would shoot off a cannon.

And he would have to get a message to Sarah and Emerson. David might have some ideas how. If he could get the message through, his sister would offer reliable details about events in Philadelphia.

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