Armed with a long knife, flint-lock musket, and his father's medical bag, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to fulfill his father's deathbed wish. Lorenzo joins a secret flathoat operation delivering much-needed medicine and gunpowder to George Washington's army, leading the reader on a romping ride from the docks of New Orleans to the battlefields of the American Revolution. This action-packed historical novel for young people tells the story of Gibson's Lambs and the Spaniards, forgotten heroes of the struggle for independence.