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Acts of Courage

✍ Scribed by Crook, Connie Brummel

Book ID: 108945421
Publisher: Pajama Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 217 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780986949579

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✦ Synopsis

The story of Laura Ingersoll Secord, from her early days in Massachusetts and her family’s immigration to Upper Canada to her part in the War of 1812, when she rescued her injured husband on the field of battle and undertook a dangerous twenty mile trek to warn the British commander of an impending American attack on the British outpost at Beaver Dams. She had been running, stumbling, walking for sixteen hours. It seemed that every muscle was screaming in pain. She did not even stop to check the new wound. When she reached the top of the hill, she stopped abruptly, trembling at an unexpected sight.Clusters of tents and groups of men around campfires were silhouetted against the sky.In Acts of Courage, Connie Brummel Crook dramatizes the life of one of Canada’s most enduring heroines, Laura Secord. From young Laura Ingersoll’s early days in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, amidst the turmoil that followed the American Revolutionary War, the story outlines her father’s...

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