Historic Figures Judson Fletcher Interacts With Throughout The Novel
- George Rogers Clark
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- John Adams
- Richard Henry Lee
- Francis Lightfoot Lee
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Dickinson
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