George Washington's One-Man Army: The Life, Legend, and Battles of Peter Francisco

From Brandywine to Yorktown, follow the astonishing real-life journey of the Revolutionary War’s most mythic warrior.

“One-Man Army” was George Washington’s nom de guerre for Peter Francisco. Abducted from the Azores and deposited in the colony of Virginia at the age of four, little Pedro Francisco was an orphan from a strange land in the New World. Renamed Peter Francisco, the youngster found a home under indenture to Patrick Henry’s uncle as a blacksmith. Peter was present for Henry’s famo...