The Olive Branch

April 1775. The war begins at Lexington, exactly as it did in our history. Then a petition that George III refused even to receive is received instead, and nothing about the war changes except what it is for.

The Olive Branch follows thirteen people through the four years after that: a King who never changes his mind; the minister who talked him into a courtesy and then had to run the war it did not stop; the moderate who wins the vote history remembers him losing; the general fighting the King's army in the King's name; a Mohawk leader whose people the peace forgets; and a farm boy from Lexington.