General George Washington's Great Secret.

At the direction of Great Britain's King George, the supposedly invincible British General Edward Braddock arrives in America. He has been assigned to quell the trouble that will eventually become the French and Indian War. George Washington - then a young Virginia Militia captain - becomes his aide. At the end of the first day's march toward the French Fort Duquesne in Pennsylvania, they secretly bury the Army's payroll coins stoppered into the muzzles of two brass cannons at a spring alongside the trail at a settlement then called Newgate (now Centreville, Virginia). Fate would have it, though, that the General and most of his 1500 men would be killed when ambushed. George Washington, for various reasons, kept the payroll burial a secret, letting the public think the French had captured the fortune.

Of one thing we are sure however, is that the treasure has never been recovered, and the British Government, which has never given up its claim, has offered one-half of the fortune to anyone who finds it. - Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia Inc. Yearbook, Volume 3 - 1954.

The author has taken this forgotten footnote of history and, in order to flesh out characters in the saga, turned the facts into an historical novel with a love story. Verbatim excerpts from entries recorded in Braddock's official Orderly Books at the time of the event substantiate the "faction." The events exposed in this book actually set the stage for the creation of the United States of America. An impressive bibliography is included.

-Excerpted from the publisher's book cover and web site.

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