Fragile Freedom

It had only been four years since Brigadier-General Daniel Morgan had been returned in an exchange, having been taken prisoner by the British following defeat at the Battle of Quebec. Ever defiant, the man who once took a bullet to the back of the neck, knocking out teeth, and had received 499 lashes from a British whip for knocking out a British Lieutenant who struck him with the flat end of his sword, bragging they still owed him one more, he had surrendered his sword to a French-Canadian Priest rather than offer it to the Colony’s Governor, General Guy Carleton. Even as his 500 handpicked riflemen had help secure victory at the Battle of Saratoga, it was clear to General Washington that the trade had paid off. Now, he and his troops had been sent South to assist General Nathanael Greene in his under gunned and under manned efforts in South Carolina. Greene’s plans were simple, he would use the highly-trained riflemen in guerilla warfare, knowing that though they were outnumbered they could plunge a knife i