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Jonathan's older brother is away struggling with Standard Washington in Pa. But at 13, Jonathan is too young to combat. Still too young. Then one morning, April 3, 1778, the tavern bell sounds, dialling men to arms. Eager to establish his mettle, with blood vessels pounding in his ears, Jonathan joins the gathering men at the tavern to listen to the news. With a 12-pound, six-foot-long flintlock musket loaned to him by the tavern keeper, Jonathan confirms a place within the other men, marching to battle. Then the point in time comes - the distant audio of drums and the terrible whine of the fife. As the troops march into view, Jonathan sees 30 military - all relocating perfect formation, a bayonet at every waist. "Hessians," the man next to Jonathan said. "Hessians." Avi is writer of the Newbery-winner The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. In The Fighting with each other Floor he recounts one memorable day in the life span of young Jonathan, a naive NJ farmboy looking forward to war.
