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</a>British and American forces fight each other in the first battle of the American Revolution.
<a href='http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp' >History of Lexington and Concord -
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Sam comes home and tells his parents about Lexington and Concord. Then he figures out that his father does not approve of his decision on his side of the war, while Sam tells his family he enlisted in the army.
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Sam steals his father's gun, the Brown Bess, and takes it to war with him.
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Father gets asked if he has his household firearm, the Brown Bess, but he does not because Sam stole it. This leads to Father being beaten by the Continental Army soldiers on the same day.
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The Americans become an independent nation by signing the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence -
Father and Tim face harsh weather conditions like heavy snow on their way to sell cattle at Verplanck's Point, New York.
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Cow-boys, who steal cattle, confront Father and Tim, and threaten to kill them, until a man saves them from death.
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Father is captured by the cow-boys that confronted him and Tim earlier.
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Tim finds out that his captured father was killed on a British Prison Ship.
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Sam tries to steal back his own cattle when it is taken by cattle thieves, but is framed by the crooks.
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Sam must go on trial for what he was accused of doing, which was stealing cattle.
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Tim comes up with a plan to rescue Sam from captivity by throwing a bayonet over the prisoner gates so he can get himself out. It turns out that Tim gets shot in the shoulder by a Continental, and Sam was not even in the prison encampment.
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Sam, who is found guilty during his trial, is sent to be executed by gunshot. First, he is shot, then he catches fire and rolls in it until he is shot again.
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After Sam's execution, Tim and his mother go to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to start over.
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The Americans, the French, the Spanish, and the British make a treaty that gives the Americans their independence, their land, and gives money back to Loyalists who lost land in the war.
<a href='http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/paris.html' >History of the Treaty of Paris -
To commemorate his brother's short life on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Tim tells us the story of his brother and his bravery.
