The Last Reiver

After British Army General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington’s rebels at Yorktown, Virginia, the American Revolutionary War rapidly drew to a close. A few weeks after the surrender, Captain Alex Mackenzie had completed his short and informal discharge ceremony from the Continental Army at Yorktown and had traveled to Philadelphia where he and his brothers, Robert and Hugh, received an urgent and alarming message. Their father, John was in trouble with the English authoriti...