The Reluctant Commander

by Richard Patton

Overview

Twenty-two-year-old George Washington was pleased by his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and quite content to be the second-in-command of Governor Robert Dinwiddie's expedition to remove the French from the Ohio Valley.

Then Joshua Fry, the mission's elderly commanding officer, is killed in a fall from his horse. Washington, whose experience in battle is all but nonexistent, is suddenly in command of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field in the Allegheny Mountains called Great Meadows--and the enemy is coming.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150622388
Publisher:	Zumaya Yesterdays
Publication date:	08/29/2014
Series:	The Neophyte Warrior , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	963 KB

About the Author

Richard Patton is a six-fold grandfather with a Ph.D. from Case-Western Reserve University and several lesser degrees from other institutions. Except for a lifelong desire to be one, contributions to college literary magazines, and a creative writing course at an ancient academy called Carnegie Tech, his credentials as am author of fiction are restricted to the first book in the Neophyte Warrior series: His Majesty’s Envoy. He has an abiding interest in early American History and the patience to root out some of its lesser-known tidbits. He has had some success in little theater where, among other things, he learned the dynamics of dialogue and an important lesson also mastered by the young George Washington: A good actor must be able to persuade his audience that he knows what he’s doing until such time that he actually does.

Dr. Patton lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh with his wife, Jo. The Reluctant Commander is the second book in the Neophyte Warrior series