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Unlikely Allies is the storyline of three amazing historical numbers. Silas Deane was a Connecticut product owner and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies battled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was an effective playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Relationship of Figaro. Along with the flamboyant and inexplicable Chevalier d?Eon ?official, diplomat, and sometime spy?was the talk of London and Paris. Is the Chevalier a man or a female?
When Deane is sent to France to persuade the French federal to support the revolutionary cause, he enlists the help of Beaumarchais. Mutually, they successfully smuggle weapons, ammunition, and materials to New England just with time for the key Struggle of Saratoga, which turned the tide of the American Revolution. Along with the catalyst for Louis XVI?s support of the Us citizens against England was the Chevalier d?Eon, whose decision to declare herself a female helped to lead to the Franco-American alliance. These three people spin a remarkable web of politics intrigue and international politics that stretches across oceans as they ricochet from Versailles to Georgian London to the Pennsylvania Express House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. Each man has his own reasons for attempting to see America triumph over the British, and each contends daily with the certainty that no-one is what they seem. The lines between friends and foes is blurred, spies lurk atlanta divorce attorneys corner, and the only path to make it through is to trust no-one.
An edge-of-your-seat tale full of amazing characters and lavish with period depth and sense of place, Unlikely Allies is Cutting edge history in all of its juicy, lurid glory.
Unlikely Allies is the storyline of three amazing historical numbers. Silas Deane was a Connecticut product owner and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies battled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was an effective playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Relationship of Figaro. Along with the flamboyant and inexplicable Chevalier d?Eon ?official, diplomat, and sometime spy?was the talk of London and Paris. Is the Chevalier a man or a female?
When Deane is sent to France to persuade the French federal to support the revolutionary cause, he enlists the help of Beaumarchais. Mutually, they successfully smuggle weapons, ammunition, and materials to New England just with time for the key Struggle of Saratoga, which turned the tide of the American Revolution. Along with the catalyst for Louis XVI?s support of the Us citizens against England was the Chevalier d?Eon, whose decision to declare herself a female helped to lead to the Franco-American alliance. These three people spin a remarkable web of politics intrigue and international politics that stretches across oceans as they ricochet from Versailles to Georgian London to the Pennsylvania Express House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. Each man has his own reasons for attempting to see America triumph over the British, and each contends daily with the certainty that no-one is what they seem. The lines between friends and foes is blurred, spies lurk atlanta divorce attorneys corner, and the only path to make it through is to trust no-one.
An edge-of-your-seat tale full of amazing characters and lavish with period depth and sense of place, Unlikely Allies is Cutting edge history in all of its juicy, lurid glory.
