A New Kind of Hero - Liberty's Kids Author:Amanda Stephens The attack on Fort Ticonderoga. George Washington is appointed general of the American army. The Second Continental Congress. The Battles of Breeder and Bunker Hill. — War has come to America and the Liberty's Kids find themselves on the frontlines of America's battle for independence. At the meeting of the Second Continental Congress in ... more »Philadelphia, George Washington is appointed general in charge of the colonial army, and his first plan of attack is on the British forts at Breeder and Bunker Hill. Will he lead the colonies to victory? Or will the American army suffer another devastating loss?