On the other side of loyalties is the idealistic patriot Jonathon from a merchant family who wants to help the rebels. Sam is good with horses and it’s a skill that serves him well looking after the mounts of the upper echelons of the army.
He is recruited by Captain Kit Vane, an aide to Howe, and is thankful as his brother’s killer the brutal Sergeant Scammell wants to flog him to death. The titular Redcoat is the good-hearted Private Sam Gilpin, seduced into war by his brother’s tales of gold and the flashy uniform, and when his brother his killed his life as a simple soldier is thrown into disarray. The patriots in the mean time find ways to communicate with the rebels fighting on the fringes of the city and let them know what they can learn of planned troop movements and attacks. The unarmed patriots within the city are seen as a minor inconvenience by General Howe who commands the English garrison and indeed he humours them at the many parties he holds he would like to see a peace treaty signed with George Washington. While Sharpe was action-packed, Redcoat concentrates less on the battles and more on the intrigue and treachery among the various figures on both sides of the war in the city. Redcoat was first published in 1987 and Cornwell wrote it before his hugely popular multi-volume TV-adapted Sharpe series began. Some a loyalists supporting the English regime policed by the occupying Redcoats that they nickname ‘lobsters’, and some are staunch patriots who want to see America free from the yoke of a far off government. Redcoat is set in the year 1777 in war-torn Philadelphia populated by clergy, merchants and farmers with divided loyalties. |t Richard Sharpe series.After spending most of the year reading Bernard Cornwell’s Last Kingdom series it was interesting to read one of his early standalone novels.
|a United States |x History |y Revolution, 1775-1783 |x Fiction. |a United States |x History |y Revolution, 1775-1783 |v Fiction. Soon, across the fields of ice and blood in a place called Valley Forge, history will be rewritten, changing the lives and fortunes of these men and women forever. And for the men and women of the prosperous Becket family, the Revolution brings bitter conflict between those loyal to the crown and those with dreams of liberty. Now he must choose between duty to a distant king and the call of his own conscience. The young Redcoat Sam Gilpin has seen his brother die. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. |a It is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British.
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