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The narrative follows a band of Boston youths who form a volunteer corps in response to increasing British military measures and the town's forced confinement. They train, patrol, and engage in scouting, intelligence and daring small-scale actions against soldiers and loyalists, confronting betrayals, captures, and risky night operations. Episodes range from recruitment and camp life to participation in a major engagement on the heights, a difficult retreat, clandestine missions through secret passages, seizure of important papers, and schemes to outwit opponents, all framed as youthful patriotism and local hardship during the siege.
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