'The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire,' said Sir Horace Walpole, but what really happened?
Young Lieutenant Colonel George Washington approaches his very first battle full of trepidation. His whole life lies ahead of him, or does it? Rather less respectable Tobias Craven would rather be in a nice, cosy tavern back in Alexandria, but no, fate has dragged him out here to this Godforsaken wilderness where he must follow Washington into a struggle that will begin with a single volley fired in the remote woodlands and culminate with the commencement of the first true world war.