"It happened in the evening - on the eve of last Christmas. "Grandfather," my eldest grandson told me, "I want you to tell us all your revolutionary stories." You have already told us a lot, but we would very much like to hear all of them at once. " This is how interesting and uncommonly Ebenezer Fox begins the story of being a boy, not a young man, dreaming of an interesting and not routine life, and besides fully embracing the idea of ??ridding his native United States of British domination that owned the minds of adults around him , he decided to act and left his home, leaving no prompts to his relatives that they could help them find him, entered - for starters as a cabin boy - on a sea-going ship and embarked on a long - and adventurous journey - like about life and the Ocean waters. He lived a long and happy life, this hero of the war of independence of the United States - a member of the famous duel in American history between Protector and Admiral Duff, and one of the very few survivors who left a written memory of a prisoner of the jersey prison in prison 80 years old, in the circle of his large family, the favorite of his seven grandchildren and a respected member of the Boston society. He was sure that what he had seen and experienced could not be of any interest to young people of that time, when his life was already declining, and, undoubtedly, the 21st-century inquisitive reader would also like his book, he would experience an overwhelming desire to reach its very last page and will get the same pleasure as its author when he created it.