ESCAPE FROM FORT ISAAC

ESCAPE FROM FORT ISAAC

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Kindle Edition , pages. Published July 9th by Bill Williams first published July 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book.

This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Feb 15, Charles van Buren rated it liked it. I am certain that state governors had and have no authority to pardon or commute the sentences of military prisoners.

These are the two inaccuracies in the novel which I found to be most notable. The main character, I hate to use the term hero for a man who mostly lucked through his problems, is an army officer convicted of a brutal rape and murder in a court martial. After escaping, through no effort of his own, he spends the rest of the novel wandering around trying to prove his innocence. He makes erroneous assumptions, falls into traps and generally his feeble attempts to discover the truth are futile. Justice finally prevails through the actions of others.

His escape from death at the hands of the real killer is accomplished through sheer chance, not competence. I downloaded this novel via Kindle Unlimited. Charles Wheeler rated it liked it Jun 19, The natives of the village were so uninviting to the missionaries that the Fathers thought it would be impossible to do any missionary work among them. The rumours that had encircled them spread to the village and quickly discovered that their cause was just as hopeless as in the former place. They were welcomed by some two thousand Indians upon their arrival.

Jogues settled down to the duties of a resident missioner at St.

Mary's for some time. Jogues allegedly hid in reeds and bushes, but decided to leave his hiding place to join the prisoners so that he could comfort them and ensure that their faith in Christianity remained strong. Shortly thereafter, and in retaliation for comforting a tortured Frenchman, the Mohawk beat Jogues with sticks, tore out his fingernails, then gnawed the ends of his fingers until finger bones were visible. There, the villagers marched them through a gauntlet, which consisted of rows of Iroquois armed with rods and sticks beating the prisoners walking in single-file.

Afterwards, the Iroquois forced Jogues and the prisoners onto an elevated platform where they were mocked. A captive Algonquin woman then cut off Jogues' thumb. At night, the prisoners were tied spread-eagled in a cabin. Children threw burning coals onto their bodies. Three days later, Jogues and the prisoners were marched from one village to another, where the Iroquois flogged them in gauntlets, and jabbed sticks into their wounds and sores.

At the third village, Jogues was hung from a wooden plank and nearly lost consciousness, until an Iroquois had pity on him and cut him free. Throughout his captivity, Jogues comforted, baptized, heard confession from, and absolved the other prisoners. Hearing of their capture, Arent van Curler , commis of Rensselaerswyck , visited the "first castle" and attempted to ransom them, but without success as the Mohawk were not inclined to release them at that time.

Van Curler was able to elicit a promise not to kill the captives. Instead of being put to death or integrated into a Mohawk family, Jogues remained a captive at large. Perpetually malnourished and inadequately dressed for the harsh winters, he spent his days gathering wood, praying, and proselytizing his captors.

Some noteworthy incidents that occurred during this period were when he saved the life of a pregnant woman that had fallen into a deep, fast-flowing creek during the winter, and when he baptized the Iroquois man who had freed him from the wooden torture device. In the autumn of , the Mohawk were persuaded to bring the priest with them when they came to Beverwijck to trade. Once there, Van Curler helped Jogues to escape, hiding him his barn until a deal could be reached and the Frenchman put on a ship to take him downriver.

Jogues was the first Catholic priest to visit Manhattan Island. Under Church law of the time, the Blessed Sacrament could not be touched with any fingers but the thumb and forefinger.

Jogues was unable to follow this law after the loss of two fingers while in Iroquois captivity, resulting in the requirement for dispensation by the Pope. Jogues experienced regret over his time in captivity, and a longing for martyrdom that motivated his return to New France in after only a year and a half in France, first to Quebec, followed by a trip to Wendake.

In the spring of , Jogues returned to Iroquois territory, along with Jean de Lalande , to act as the French ambassador to the Mohawk. His ambassadorship was intended to maintain the tentative peace reached in between the Iroquois, and the French, the Huron and the Algonquin. This was done to ensure a safe passage for trade and travel. Jogues and Lalande were met with hesitation upon their arrival, as some Mohawk regarded missionaries as evil practitioners of foreign magic.

The Europeans transmitted European diseases, such as smallpox and measles , that spread among Native Americans. This is a book about an officer, set up for a conviction of rape and his long journey to clear his name.

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Some of his sidesteps made sense. Others seemed a bit strange for a man on the run. But every scene, every diversion was interesting and slowly or quickly moved the story to it's conclusion.. The author has a way with a story that grabs your attention and holds your interest throughout. His heroic figures are likable and his bad guys have a meanness that is easy to make you root for the main character to overcome. There was a little more surprise in this than normal.

The guy I had pegged as the perpatrator of the rape was in the end just a red herring One person found this helpful.

It takes a lot of imagination for the writer to come up with what actually took place, and how it was done. I probably gave it one star to many, but then that's ok. Other readers might enjoy this writer's book. As a military western I enjoyed the book, it kept my interest yet was not a hard book to read or follow. As usual I didn't like the profanity in it.

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Another good western by Author Bill Williams. His books are great for when you think things are at their worse then comes the last chapter. When I read his books I am still up 5 in the morning reading. This is a great western to read. First book I have read by this Author and highly recommend it to others.

Lots of characters and some good and some bad but all necessary to the script which keep your interest. Doesn't look good for main character throughout but ends well. See all 28 reviews.

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