Summary
Reverend Adam Ghent joins the Continental Navy preparing to engage the Royal Navy at Lake Champlain. He tracks down his brother-in-law, Israel Daniel Dickenson, and finds he is the captain of the Enterprise. Ghent joins the crew as chaplain and gives Dickenson a package from his mother, containing talismans from the old religion that Dickenson recognises as a concealing spell.
The Americans manage to hold the British throughout the day, helped by a strong wind preventing the large British ships from reaching them. As night falls, Ghent persuades Dickenson to don the cloak, which gives him the idea to take the fleet away from their positions under cover of fog, forcing the British to waste time searching for them and allowing the Americans to fortify their positions.
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References
Characters
- Benedict Arnold • Arthur Cohn • Israel Daniel Dickenson • Adam Ghent • Henry Hardie • Stephen McCrae • Edward Pellew • Joe Rochon • Barclay • Barrette • LaMay • Lavengood • Thorsby
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- Blake (ship's mate) • Eloise Dickenson • Mary Dickenson • Rue (Captain) • George Washington • Edward Wigglesworth
Starships and vehicles
- Enterprise • Carleton • Congress • Connecticut • Inflexible • New York • Philadelphia • Revenge • Royal Savage • Spitfire • Trumbull • Washington
Locations
- Earth (Adirondack Mountains • Lake Champlain • New York • Valcour Bay • Valcour Island)
- Referenced only
- Canada • Connecticut (New Haven) • Fort Ticonderoga • Hudson River • Long Island • Richelieu River • Schuyler Island • St. John's • St. Lawrence River
Races and cultures
States and organizations
- Continental Congress • Continental Navy • England • Royal Navy • United States • United States Navy
Technology and weapons
- boat (bateau • canoe • rowboat) • cannon • cutter • galley • gunboat • gunpowder • hammer • knife • musket • radeau • schooner • sloop
Ranks and titles
Other references
- 1775 • 1776 • 1801 • apple • beard • bell • bird • blood • boot • breakfast • butterfly • camp fever • cat • chapel • Christmas • cornmeal • death • dog • earth • elements • equinox • fascine • fire • flower (rose) • fly • fog • forest • garden • ghost (spirit) • God • hair • Halloween • heart • holiday • holly • horse • lightning • malaria • medicine • memory • merchant marine • mist • Moon • October • prayer • privateer • pudding • religion • rope • rum • sail • salt • stone • sun • supernatural • superstition • swan • swimming • tea • tree • typhoid • uniform • The Veil • water • witch
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