Synopsis: "In late August, 1952 fifteen-year-old Pete Jenkins joins his resort friends for an end-of-summer party. Dressed in pirate outfits, they board a small, but sturdy craft and head off to an uninhabited island where they will have a picnic. In the distance Pete and his friends spy an antique, three-masted achooner and rush out to greet it to get a better look. They find themselves captured and part of an enormous fleet of British, Canadian and Indian attackers headed for Fort Mackinac. The make-believe social gathering in 1952 has become a real-life battle for survival in the War of 1812.