dear king George the third



i have reached chateauguay and i sent a scout out to find out information from the Americans. when he came back he told me that the Americans were trying to cut off supplies from Montreal to Kingston.


 he said that they are going to attack the area that my troops are in. he also said that they put a very bad leader in charge so we may have the upper hand.

sinserily Mr.Prairie   

dear Mr.Prairie

this is king George the third. this letter is regarding your amazing bravery during battle. i have heard that you have used a group of aboriginals. that group of aboriginals are called Shawnee tribe or nation. they have decided to work with you to try to get more aboriginal tribe or nations.



so we have added more members to your battalion. on top of artillery we have decided to give more soldiers. you will be moved to chateauguay for stationing.

so there i was in the office of a man named James. then he shook my hand and said " follow me". he lead me out side next to a bunch of men who looked like fifteen years older than me. i shook their hands and said do any of you men know how to use a rifle. then all of the men raised there hands.


then i said does any of you men know how to use a cannon. five out of fifteen men raised there hands. i said then you men who know how to work a cannon teach the other people. one of the men said " i am not listening to that baby" and i said then go and you can take control for today. i said troops he is being dumb so you will have to listen to him.


he said " this will be easy". i yelled battle simulation. he said formation seven. and all of the guns were facing him. then he said " maybe i am not cut out to be in charge'. i said i thought so.        

so there i was commanding my troops at the artillery at fort Henry at Kingston. i yelled fire and i heared a big BANG!!! next thing i know is that the ship in the distance had a big hole in it because my troops hit it. i heard a horn sound and one of the commanders yelled retreat. and all of the men and the ships started going back.


a message came and said " sir are you Ryan Prairie" and i said yes. he said " you will meet with a representative of the British king right now". so i walked to the main office to see a men in a suit with a bunch of medals on his jacket. i knew right away that he was very high in the British government.


he said " hello Mr. Prairie my name is James and i am here to tell you that the king" and i said ok. he said "i have a message from the king" and i said what is it. he said "dear Mr.Prairie i have heard about your great bravery and i have decided to reward you with more men for your squadron".   

so there i was geting a medal for killing some general. so they gave me my own group of people. it was me, chrystian, dominic, some guy named patrick and some other guy named josef. we left for kingston. aperently it is one of the biggest military bases.



we left right away to Kingston. when we got there we unpacked every thing. the coolest thing was that we would be operating the canons. i four other men. but i do not know there names yet. i went to my room and i look around the compound.


i see there training the new soldiers and i watch. when that was done i heard the battle bell. it was a big bell you ring when there is a battle about to begin. me and my men were working at the turrets today.      

so there i was helping some girl named natilie. she was very hungry so i went back to camp and brought her with me. when i got there i said to the nearest officer, get her to the mess. i road back on my horse. when i go there i got in formation and we shot our rifles. i hit a couple people and i realised i just killed some one. i felt so bad.


then i heard a call from my left and i see the aboriginals coming to help us. i hear gun shots and swords drawing. then i get on the horse with a aboriginal and i shot. when that happened i heared the sound of retreat.



i thought to myself wow that was easy. i get off of the horse and get on to my horse. we road off to camp. were i hear a man saying "prairie come here". i walk over there and a man hands me a medal and says "for your bravery i award you with this medal.

so there i was getting my horse. i got him and i came back got a sattle on him. the man gave me a uniform i got in to it. i got on my horse. the man gave me a rifle and a sword. i put it on my sattle. dominic and chrystian came out. they did the same as me. the rest of the boys came out and a lot of them did not have horses.


so some of the boys had to share but me, chrystian, and dominic. we started to go. i said to the man where are we going. he said "sandwich" i said why and he said "the Americans invaded it". we travelled for days but we were almost there.


the man said weapons ready. i shot a man. he was on the ground dead. i took my sword and i went in to a building. i saw a girl about my age. i said hi she said "dont kill me" i said i am canadian. she said " my name is natalie". i said i am here to help.   

so there i was in bed. i was about to go to school and i get outside. i hear a loud bell and a man came up with a bunch of soldiers i say to my mom do you know what is happining. she said "no". the man said " bring out your boys from the ages of 12 to 39". then me, chrystian, and dominic walked forward.



the man said "great our first boys". the rest of the boys walked forward one by one. the man said "gather some things and say good bye to friends and family and meet me at the town square". me, chrystain, and dominic walked to the house. my mom came up to me crying and hugged me and kissed me twice. i said mom it is going to be ok.


i went to my room got my shirt on and my pants. i went to charlies house and she came out and hugged me. i said bye. she said "bye. try to come back". i said i will try. on my way back to my house i saw the her cat. i walk up to him and i stroked it's back. i walked away. when i got home i said good bye to my family. i walked to the town square the man gave me a horse i said i have my own. i went to go get him.  
 

so there i was at charlie's tree house playing with her. she said "ryan i am happy you are here" and i said why. she said "because the other kids tease me and because of that no one wants to play with me". i said i should be going my parents dont know that i was at school or at your house. she said "i had a great time with you ryan".


i said i had a great time with you to bye. then i climbed down the ladder and when i got to the bottom i got on my jacket and i walked. when i got home i saw my parents staring at me. they said" where have you been" and i said at my friends house.


they said " with out telling us. i said ya. they said "go to bed" and i said ok. when i got to bed i put on my pajmas and i got in to bed. i fell asleep like that. i had another dream with charlie in it but we were in a waste land it was just the two of us. and then a person with a rifle said give me her and i could not do any thing. then  i said no then he shot her. then she said " ryan why". then i woke up.

so there i was on my way to charlies house to play with her. i was walking down the street when i saw a cat. it was a nice cat. with orange stripes. i see charlie come out and picked up the cat and said "ah nice boy" and i said thank you. she laughed and said "i was talking to the cat but nice joke".

so i follow her to her house and i see her mother and i say hello my name is Ryan prairie. and she says " hello my name is Francine". and she says "come on Ryan lets go to the tree house" and i say sure. we walk out side to the tree where there was a ladder and i climbed it first.

she came behind me. when i got to the top i saw it was a big tree house. i said wow and she said "i know. my dad built it before he left". i said where did he go. she said " he left to England a year then he went to India to work on some big project".

then some tears ran down her face. i said its ok and i hugged her. she said "thank you for caring"          

so there i was finishing up. i said to dominic that i would go to bed. he said ok. so i went to my room and i fell asleep really easily. when i woke up there was a girl on top of me but not like on top of me she was floating  over me. i look up and she started talking but i couldn't understand her.



 the wierd thing is is she is speaking french but i do speak it. then when i got up she hit me and i hurt. then she said in english "ryan i am waiting for you to". i woke up. it was just a dream. i said i will go to school. chrystian said"what did you just say" i said bye chrystian.



i got out the door and i walked to the school. i got so bored. then i heard bell ring i was happy i went out side and i saw her by herself in the stump reading. i said hi she said hi my name is ryan. she said "do i know you" i said no but you look formiler. she said "my name is charlie. do you want to come over to my house tonight" i said sure.     

so there i was in my bed getting up. i get out side and it is chrystian and dominic. i said lets start farming. then dominic said " that sounds like a great idea" and i said say it in french. and he said "qui sonne comme une bonne idée". 


then i said then lets start. dominic goes in to the house. i go to get the horse in the carriage house. chrystian went in the shed. when i came out i took the brush and brushed the horse. then i heard the door open and i saw dominic come over with the seeds.



chrystian came and we started. me and chrystian put the plow on the horse and laced up the straps. i sat on the horses back and i yelled heyaa. i could feel the horse under me moving. i relised that i had not rode a horse sence i was little. but it was fun. it was very fun.          

so there i was just waking up. i did not know what time it was but i knew it was really early. so i decided to go out side and work on planting.


 like yesterday i found chrystian working on the farm. i said hey. and he jumped because he did not know i was there. he said " you scared me" and i said good. and we both laughed. he said "you want to help" and i said sure.


he said it easy to plow. and i said teach me he said sure the horse starteed moving and we started spreeding seeds.  

so there i was helping chrystian clear the last tree. he said "lets have some fun with this one". i said how. he said " lets cut it down" i said that would take longer. so we took axes and began chopping at the roots.



 the roots came right out after we chopped them.then it was so fragile we just hit it with the bottom of our axes. it fell right over. it almost hit the tree and i got really scared.



so after that we began chopping it and putting the pieces in the shed. we started a fire and had chicken for dinner. i decided to go to bed early.    

so i decided to go to bed. i woke up and my dad said " i have to go to work. Ryan you will work with chrystians family". so i got up and got dressed and went out side. when i got out side i saw chrystian working by himself.



i said what are you doing. he said "i was a farmer before the rebellion and i know how too clear land" and i said now say it in French . he said "i était un agriculteur avant la rebelion et je sais comment trop défricher des terres"

i said very good. so we decided to work together. we started to dig and when we go to the bottom i grabbed the hook and we atached the hook to the roots and i yelled haya and the horse ran. the tree fell and i said next one.

 

so there i was having to help my family clear the land. it was really hard. i grabbed the shovel and me and my dad began to dig around the tree and when got to the bottom we took a hook and twisted it through the roots and we put the other side to the horse and my dad yelled haya and the horse ran as fast as it could.


i heard a sound like somebody was spiting and some body was coughing. it hit the ground with a big Wabash. my dad said "we better chop it up". so i grabbed a axe and i started to chop i guess it was pretty hard.

we had anought fire wood for a month but we need to get jobs and that is why the other familys are not helping us because they are getting jobs.    

so i went to sleep in Dominic's family waggon with the other children. when we all woke up i told them that me and my sister would teach them french. they all agreed. so the first thing i told them is that we were going to a town called Montreal. and how to say hello and goodbye.

we stop at a forest to set up camp. when i woke up like always we are in the waggon and on our way to Quebec. my father says that we are almost there and that we have to teach them faster. so my friends all agreed that  we need to have more french practices.

 when i woke up i was not in the waggon i was in a bed. and there were stange people around me the spoke in french. that ment that my family was in quebec. i turns out that my parents fell asleep and we crashed out in a farm feild.

and there i was at school with my friends and me playing with our toy ships. i heard some people talking and i thought. i need to listen. i told my friends that i needed to go to the bathroom and i left.i heard them talking about how the loyalists were so dumb and how they were going to take over the town. so after that i went to class and all i could think about is how i have to tell my parents.

 when i got home i told my parents and they did not believe me. so i waited and waited. everyday. but on a Saturday i saw a bunch of people with torch's and swords. i ran to my parents room and said they are coming. my parents got my sister up and all the other family's we got our wagon and horses and packed all our stuff together and went. when we left i began to cry because all my friends were crying.

on the wagons we had all of our bread, some fish, a basket of apples, and four cantines of water. we had anof to last us for days. my father dicided to take us to quebec. the thing is that my family knows french but not the other familys. so we dicided to teach them.
  

so here i am loyalist ryan prairie a frech father but he moved to england when he was four. we were in the wagon with my new friend chrystian and his brother andrew and his sister larisa. dominic and his brother marcus. we play game's like tag and hide and seek when we stop for the night.

 all together we have 5 horses we have 2 and they chrystian has 2 and dominic has . our family share everything. we are almost there at boston and i am very happy that we are almost there. my father says that we should not stop until we get there.

 i feel bad it has been four weeks and my father has slept 5 times. when me, dominic, and chrystian go to sleep we sleep in chrystian' wagon. when we ake up we can see a big city and then my father say "we are here" and we are all happy. my father find us all a house that some people from the rebelion was. it turns out that the people drove the rebelion out.

there is was half way to nova scotia and i was just in Boston. i loved Boston my friends were very nice and i had a school. but the governor liked my parents. every night my father and the Governor went out and drank beer. my friends parents did not like the Governor like my family did.

 the group of people were there with a sign that said do not tread on us and they dumpt all the tea in the lake. i love tea. that made the king very angry he ordered my father back and the governor. when we were walking some body threw a bunch of stones and then the rest of the crowed joined in. then some body threw a light torch and the whole thing burst out in flames. and then it goes in to the last story.  

so here we are now. my family just pasted the last town of loyalist and they were all packing because if the rebels got them they were done and they would all be killed. the nice people diceded to join us on our quest to nova scotia.

there was i standing there and there was a big group of people standing and saying things like "the english are dumb" and "they treated the frech better than us" and worsed of all they said " dont care about us and that is why they let us  fend for our sevles".

 but the thing was that me and my family thought that the british were very nice to use because my dad was a very rich man he was also very good friends with the British king so he gets to go for free and not pay tax. 

the rebellion said that we were the enemy and made use leave and if we did not leave they would kill us. they were not kidding because they had knives and scythe's. so we got out our horses and our waggon and loaded our stuff on to our waggon and we just left. i felt the watery liquid filling my eyes and i just let it all go and i started to weep and then my mother started to cry and we were devastated. 

my father never like that house. he said " the house was way to big any way". on our way to nova scotia we had to stop at the first house. the nice people lived alone and they were french and did not believe in the united states or some thing like that. the next day i wake up on the waggon with my mom next to me and it turns out we are not going to nova scotia. we are going to Quebec.        

the year was 1763 and we were in a hard winter with little food and little tree's and to make matters even worse the colonist think that they own our land. then near the end of the winter a man named Pontiac came and said lets stop the colonist's. that was his message. at first me and my tribe did not believe him and we thought they just needed to talk and we could share the land. then the next day they came and attack but they failed.


 so i travelled to find Pontiac and i found him and i said i want to join and fight. he said you are just in time and he shows me the council. it was amazing and there was at least 20 chief's from diffrent tribes. the main idea was take some forts and retake our land.  two months past and we took five forts but it is geting cold and some people want to go home.


the it is like the british have a endliss army and it is hard to hold them off. so then the council got together again and they want to make peace so they will stop attacking us. then the next morning we went out there with pontiac and we said dont fight we need peace to stop killing. the british said that we would share the land.