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We left Curzon and Isabel at the end of [[Forge Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson|Chains]], just after they'd escaped slavery in New York at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. We pick up again with Curzon - Isabel has run off to find her sister - stumbling slap bang into the middle of the Battle of Saratoga. Cornered into enlisting into the Patriot army, Curzon isn't blind to the ironies in his situation as a slave fighting for the freedom of white men. The army, flushed with victory, marches off to its winter encampment at Valley Forge, and Curzon's life takes a turn for the worse yet again as he and his comrades find themselves with no accommodation and no supplies of clothes, boots or food. But he does meet up with Isabel again.