This is the story of a Frenchman who came to "New France" with Montcalm to fight in the French and Indian War. After the war he remained in Quebec and served in the local militia. When the Revolutionary War started, he got some of his old war comrads together to fight the British again, but couldn't join any of the colonial militias because they were Catholics! They joined Arnold and Livingston (who had only 50 Americans), and along with 300 other French from Canada, they captured Ft St jean and Ft Chambly and sent the second continental congress the FIRST regimental flags as trophies of victory. (These are deplicted on the wall above the delegates signing the Declaration of Independance). From there they fought in almost every major engagement of the war, except Trenton, and surved the rest of the war ending up in yorktown. During Valley Forge, which the book has them encamped, they actually only "stopped by" to drop off sick and wounded and then continued NORTH in the foul weather to meet up with Lafayette in Albany, NY. They had planned to invade Canada and free thier people in Quebec, but Lafayette ended the mission when the Colonial Militias backed out.