that was being trained by Purdie for the printer trade. The time being represented is the spring of 1775. The dramatization shows the boy returning late at night from a delivery of books and his attention is attracted by sounds coming from the magazine storehouse for ammunition for the colony’s defense. He discovers the royal governor’s marines under leadership of lord Dunmore taking the Colonists’ gunpowder from the storage building and informs his trainer. Purdie interprets the Governor’s action as violating the protection rights of the Colonists and treason. He realizes that by printing such an event in his newspaper and exposing British royal authority, he will risk his position as official public printer. Purdie feels he is responsible for freedom of the press and prints the story. It proved out that his courage to publish the news provoked the citizens of the thirteen colonies. Within a few days came the first battle between the Lexington minutemen and British troops and the war for independence had started.