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Article: A true American tree house.(John and Samuel Pringle make giant sycamore their home as they seek to escape the French and Indian War)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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The Pringle brothers were tired of running and hiding. Surely no one would find them in this remote wilderness of western Virginia. John and Samuel Pringle were now more than a hundred miles beyond Fort Pitt, where they had deserted the British army three years earlier, in 1761.
Forced to serve as soldiers, they had found themselves entangled in the French and Indian War. Because they did not support the British King, George III, John and Samuel decided to escape. They knew that, as deserters, they would live each day afraid of being discovered and arrested. The penalty for desertion was death by hanging.
After sneaking away from Fort Pitt, they ...
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