The Border Covenant: A Tale of the French and Indian War

by Hugh C. Griffith

As Major Robert Rogers's rangers make their way along the hills by the Lake Memphramagog, young Tom Evans, his uncle, Captain John Evans, and Mohawk Indian guide Toe-Lee-Ma are aware that danger and treachery lay ahead. Fort Ticonderoga had been laced with explosives by the French and exploded into a great fiery inferno, while a spy lurked in the forest by nearby cabins with his friend and ally, the fierce Abenaki Indian Satanis. Now, somewhere in this cold, dark, snowy forest, Tom and his Uncle John must find the young Sally Williams, alive or dead, and take their vengeance on Satanis and his counterpart, a man by the name of Messieur Bouchet. But first they have to survive the wilderness trek hundreds of miles up country to the mighty fortress of Quebec-to save their homeland or die. It is a long, desperate journey filled with danger in freezing temperatures, through Abenaki territory, but go they must, to fulfill The Border Covenant. The Great French General the Marquis de Montcalm-Gorzon thought it couldn't be done, and he was counting on it for the sake of all of New France.

Genres: Historical Fiction

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2011

Reviews

[Richard]

The Border Covenant is a historically accurate tale that turns up information on the literal level...there's a recipe for "flip" and "a yard of flannel", a discussion of the tactical mistakes made at the first battle for Fort Ticonderoga by Abercrombie in 1758, and a fleeting romance that ends up in a massacre and a chase of a band of Indians up the Connecticut River. There is a French Canadian Spy who deceives the garrison at Fort Number Four in New Hampshire, and a tavern hall discussion of the significance of the War for Massachusetts at a real tavern that still stands today. The ending is fantastic, and the reader is left satisfied that the journey was real and true.