Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill

One day when Madeleine's father was off with the army and her mother had gone to Montreal to conduct some business, a band of Iroquois attacked. Things had been peaceful for a season in their area, and folks around the fort were pretty relaxed. It was a time when there was frequent skirmishes between the French settlers and the Iroquois Indians. Her family lived in and oversaw a manor house and fort on the St. The Madeleine of the title is Madeleine de VercÃ¨res, who lived in Quebec-or New France, as they called it-back in the late 17th Century. This book, however, is the child prodigy done right. When some snot nose punk saves the day while all the adults stand around drooling, I just want to close the book and toss it.

I really hate child prodigies in fiction. Let us fight to the death if need be.'ĪND SO MADELEINE and her small force begin their harrowing vigilâ?hoping against all hope that help will come … ( more) We are fighting for our peopleâ?what there are left of themâ?for our country and our faith. We must try to make the Mohawks believe that we have a strong garrison. That leaves only six of us to guard the palisades. The little children must stay in the blockhouse and their mothers with them. 'What is your plan, Ma'm'selle?' the old soldier inquired. 'Arm yourselves quickly,' Madeleine ordered. She was adjusting powder horn and bullet pouch when Louis and Alexandre ran in with Laviolette at their heels. It was not too large over her heavy hair, and, seen above the pickets, it would deceive the Indians.

She pulled off her linen cap and put on the hat. The sight of a man's hat, an old one that had belonged to her father, lying on a powder cask, gave her an idea. HTML:WORKING with feverish haste, Madeleine selected muskets, pistols, powder and bullets.

Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill