He arrives at a city green north of the city, and rests at the military encampment where he is taken in as a camp assistant. Nate is caught without cover on the streets, and runs for his life. Within hours, British ships arrive off port and begin firing on the city. Stowing away on a ship bound for New York, Nate arrives in New York City to find its streets packed with colonial soldiers. As an orphan, Nathaniel has been living with his despicable uncle, Uriah Storch, in Norwalk, Connecticut, when he decides to run away. Set in the summer of 1776, the story is told through the perspective of Nathaniel Fox, an eleven-year-old boy who gets caught in the middle of the Battle of Brooklyn, the largest battle fought during the American Revolution. This book is a part of the popular “I Survived” series, written for upper elementary readers to bring them a first-person narrative of important events in world history.
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