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Joseph Auguste, sixteen years old and frail, son and heir of the Marquis d'Aubrigant, woke up one morning in a French Army camp instead of his own bed in the Chateau d'Aubrigant. He was addressed by the unfamiliar name Pierre Boulanger, and, unable to convince anyone of his true identity or contact his father for help, he was forced to live the crude, degrading life of an Eighteenth Century soldier. After training and being strengthened physically, he was sent to the Americas to defend New France against the British in the Seven Years War (also called by local names such as La Guerre de la Conquete and the French and Indian War). On the trip across the Atlantic in a crowded transport ship, he had a chance to think back over his life. He decided.being kidnapped into the Army was the culmination of a campaign by his half-cousin Henri to usurp Joseph's position as future Marquis. Now, Joseph had to battle low spirits induced by recognition of how his cousin had victimized him as well as the primitive life he had to lead. Joseph went from one figurative frying pan to another. He participated in the bloody battle on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec City. He was wounded and dragged off the battlefield by a band of Indians who wanted to adopt him as a replacement for a warrior lost fighting for the French. But Joseph, determined to return to France and settle affairs with his cousin, ran away from the Indians, only to fall into the hands of another band who wanted to scalp him and torture him to death. He was rescued from them by a contingent of New England Rangers. Almost immediately, they were snowed in by a heavy snowfall in their Adirondack Mountain hideout, and Joseph had to spend the winter with men who seemed to him as savage as any. They were religious heretics to his way of thinking and military enemies in addition. How would Joseph ever get home and deal with his cousin when just staying alive was an extreme challenge?The "tomahawk" in the title is partly symbolic of Joseph's growing into manhood.
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Tomahawk
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