“Sir, can you stay a moment?” Sam quietly murmured to Gen. Washington as he rose to leave the Long Room at Sam’s Queen’s Head Tavern in New York City that 21st of June 1776. Washington sat suddenly, stunned, as Sam told him he suspected they had been poisoned by one of the General's Life Guards."
Prominent restaurant owner 'Black Sam' Fraunces suspects an attempt is being made to assassinate General Washington by his own Life Guards at the very start of the American Revolution. This was the first time he saved Washington's life - but not the last.
