University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Battle of Waterloo | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | Battle of Britain | One Tree Hill | Battle of the Somme | One Tree Hill (TV series) | Battle of the Bulge | Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp | Auschwitz concentration camp | Dachau concentration camp | King of the Hill | Battle of Gettysburg | Chapel Hill | Battle Creek, Michigan | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp | Hill Street Blues | Battle of France | aide-de-camp | Parliament Hill | Capitol Hill | Battle of Trafalgar | Battle of Hastings | Notting Hill | Battle of Antietam | battle | Cypress Hill | Broken Hill | Guantanamo Bay detention camp | Mill Hill Missionaries |
After a prologue with Robert E. Lee smashing the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in October 1862, and the subsequent Anglo-French diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America, the novel begins on June 28, 1914, the same day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.