The Reluctant Commander, by Richard Patton rich with detail of how

rich with detail of how the prologue to the war and the conduct of it changed the lives of everyone who lived within the country's borders--men

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They are newly conjured with full and deadly powers

The Reluctant Commander, by Richard Patton rich with detail of howTwenty 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. Then Joshua Fry, the mission's elderly commanding officer, is killed in a fall from his horse. Washington, whose experience in battle is all but nonexistent, is suddenly in command of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field