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While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, eighteen-year-old Manly Treegate and his twelve-year-old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war against Tecumseh's forces.

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Fun - so that's who Tenskwawta was. I know the name from a song - When Tenskwatwa Sings by Michael Longcor. And I know Tecumseh's name, of course. Interesting to get more detail about an event I really didn't know.
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Léonard Wibberley is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.

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Canonical title
Red Pawns
Original publication date
1973
People/Characters
Manly Treegate; Peter Treegate
First words
The sea fog lay thick as smoke around the brig Wild Duck, enveloping it in a cocoon and isolating it entirely from the world.

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Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PZ7 .W625 .RLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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