Stories about the Am Rev

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Captain Mackay's first collection remenbers the Siege of Boston and the disastrous invasion of Canada:

Book I:

The Siege of Boston

Part 1: Lexington and Concord

April 19, 1775

Part 2: The Excursion up Lake Champlain

May, 1775

Part 3: Bunker Hill

June 17, 1775

Part 4: Dorchester Heights

July, 1775 - March, 1776

Misadventure in Canada

General Montgomery's Expediction up lake Champlain September, 1775

Colonel Arnold’s Ill-fated Expedition across Maine September, 1775

Commonwealth Books is pleased to announce its first collection of "Stories for Young Readers."

Our Stories about the American Revolution will follow the War for American Independence from the siege of Boston, which began on 20 April 1775, to the siege of Yorktown and General Cornwallis's surrender on 19 October 1781.

Our narrator is Captain William MacKay. As a younger man, Captain MacKay served on General George Washington's staff. Now retired, he at last has time to compile the reports he prepared for General Washington into collections for the benefit of his grandchildren.

We have taken the liberty to add illustrations and maps so today's readers, young and old, can see the history as they saw may have seen it.

This is what he tells them in the opening pages of his first collection:

Mr. Bayne was born in Arkansas. He holds degrees from University of Illinois and Harvard Business School. He is a Veteran of the US Army, the Illinois Militia and the Illinois National Guard. During his four - decade business career, he was a member of NASA’s original Space Task Group where he served as Director of Design for Johnson Space Center in Houston; Project Manager, Structural Engineer and Architect: Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, Inc. in Detroit; Director of Engineering for Electronics Research Center, Cambridge, MA,; and Director of Operations at NASA Headquarters. He completed his career as a partner in Bayne and Lee, Architects.

In addition to memberships in numerous professional organizations and societies, Mr. Bayne is a Mason, a Knight

Templar and an American Legionnaire. He also holds memberships in the Jamestowne Society, First Families of

America, the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, the Culpeper Minute Men Chapter of the Sons of the Am-

erican Revolution (which he served as President), the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (which he served as President), the War of 1812 Society and the Scottish-American Military Society. He is a Chevalier in the Sovereign Military Order of Temple of Jerusalem, a Fellow of the Antiquaries Society of Scotland, and has served as 2nd Deputy Governor of the Virginia Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims.

In real life, William MacKay is James M. Bayne. Mr. Bayne’s riveting stories convey more than historic drama. In the course of telling his fascinating tales, Bayne captures the qualities of character that allowed the often-outgunned Americans to prevail. Through the noise and confusion of clashing armies, young readers will discern the virtues of men and women who dared their lives and fortunes to win the precious right of self-determination and they will learn that this victory changed the world.

Dear William and Mary,

Here is the first collection of stories I promised you. I am gathering them together so you can know how our country won its political Independence and how we achieved our proper place as a free and sovereign people. This is the greatest gift a parent can give his children. You must be careful to protect it so you can give it to yours.

Your loving Grandfather,

William MacKay