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With Moore at Corunna is a historical novel written by G. A. Henty. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and follows the adventures of a young British soldier named Terence O'Connor. Terence joins the British army and is sent to fight in Spain, where he becomes part of Sir John Moore's army. The novel is based on the real-life events of the Battle of Corunna, which took place in 1809. The battle was fought between the British army and the French army, and it was a significant victory for the British. With Moore at Corunna is a thrilling tale of courage, loyalty, and adventure, and it provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of the Napoleonic Wars. Henty's vivid descriptions of the battle scenes and the harsh conditions faced by the soldiers make this book a must-read for anyone interested in military history or historical fiction.The din of battle was prodigious, for the rattle of musketry was echoed and re-echoed from the rocks. The progress of the skirmishers could only be noted by the light smoke rising through the foliage and by the shouts of the soldiers, which were echoed by the still louder ones of the French, gathered strongly on the hill above them. As the British made their way up, Laborde, who was still anxiously looking for the expected coming of Loison, withdrew a portion of his troops from the left and strengthened his right, in order to hold on as long as possible on the side from which aid was expected. The ardour of the British to get to close quarters favoured this movement.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

With Lee In Virginia: A Story Of The American Civil War is a historical fiction novel written by G.A. Henty. The story is set during the American Civil War and follows the adventures of a young Confederate soldier named Vincent Wingfield. Vincent is from a wealthy Virginia family and is fiercely loyal to the Confederate cause. He joins the army and is quickly promoted to the rank of lieutenant. The novel follows Vincent's experiences during the war, including battles at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg. He also meets and befriends several historical figures, including General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeb Stuart. Throughout the story, Vincent struggles with the moral implications of fighting for the Confederacy and the institution of slavery. He eventually comes to the realization that the war is not just about states' rights, but also about the freedom of all people. With Lee In Virginia is a thrilling and action-packed novel that provides a unique perspective on the American Civil War. It offers a glimpse into the life of a Confederate soldier and the challenges he faced during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.Sometimes Ashley would draw together a score of troopers, and crossing the river in a ferryboat, would ride twenty miles north, and, dashing into quiet villages, astonish the inhabitants by the sight of the Confederate uniform. Then the villagers would be questioned as to the news that had reached them of the movement of the troops; the post office would be seized and the letters broken open; any useful -information contained in them being noted.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

With Buller In Natal is a historical fiction novel written by G.A. Henty. The story is set in Natal, South Africa during the Second Boer War in 1899. It follows the adventures of a young Englishman named Dick who travels to South Africa to fight alongside the British army led by General Buller. Throughout the novel, Dick experiences the harsh realities of war as he participates in various battles and skirmishes against the Boer forces. He also meets several historical figures, including Winston Churchill and General Buller himself. The novel provides a detailed account of the tactics and strategies used by both sides during the war, as well as the political and social implications of the conflict. It also explores themes of bravery, loyalty, and patriotism. Overall, With Buller In Natal is a thrilling and informative tale of adventure and heroism set against the backdrop of a significant moment in South African history.The rifles at once spoke out. The lads had all used the boulders behind which they crouched as rests for their rifles, and confident of their shooting and their position, their aim was deadly. Five or six of the leading Boers fell and several horses, the rest came to an abrupt pause, galloped back some little distance and then dismounted, and leaving their horses in shelter, disappeared from sight. In a short time a dropping fire was opened from both sides of the valley.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Redskin and Cow Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains is a novel written by G.A. Henty. The story is set in the western plains of America during the late 19th century. The novel follows the adventures of two young boys, Redskin and Cow Boy, who come from different backgrounds but become friends as they navigate through the dangerous and rugged terrain of the Wild West.Redskin is a young Native American boy who is forced to leave his tribe after a conflict with a rival tribe. Cow Boy, on the other hand, is a young white boy who is orphaned and taken in by a group of cowboys. The two boys meet by chance and form a strong bond as they face various challenges together, including dangerous encounters with wild animals, bandits, and hostile Native American tribes.As they journey through the western plains, Redskin and Cow Boy learn valuable lessons about courage, loyalty, and friendship. They also gain a deeper understanding of the cultural differences between their respective communities and the challenges of living in a rapidly changing world.Overall, Redskin and Cow Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains is an exciting and engaging novel that captures the spirit of adventure and exploration that characterized the American West during the late 19th century. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Wild West and the people who lived there.1908. Henty's stories revolve around a fictional boy hero during fascinating periods of history. His heroes are diligent, courageous, intelligent and dedicated to their country and cause in the face, at times, of great peril. His histories, particularly battle accounts, have been recognized by historian scholars for their accuracy. The book begins: Cedar Gulch was, in 1851, a flourishing camp. There had been some good finds by the first prospectors, and a rush had of course followed. In many cases first discoveries proved illusive, but it was not so at Cedar Gulch. The ground turned out well, and although no extraordinary finds were made, the average was good all over the bottom, and there were few who were not doing fairly well.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

In all history, there is no drama of more terrible interest than that which terminated with the total destruction of Jerusalem. Had the whole Jewish nation joined in the desperate resistance made, by a section of it, to the overwhelming strength of Rome, the world would have had no record of truer patriotism than that displayed, by this small people, in their resistance to the forces of the mistress of the world. Unhappily, the reverse of this was the case. Except in the defense of Jotapata and Gamala, it can scarcely be said that the Jewish people, as a body, offered any serious resistance to the arms of Rome. The defenders of Jerusalem were a mere fraction of its population--a fraction composed almost entirely of turbulent characters and robber bands, who fought with the fury of desperation; after having placed themselves beyond the pale of forgiveness, or mercy, by the deeds of unutterable cruelty with which they had desolated the city, before its siege by the Romans. They fought, it is true, with unflinching courage--a courage never surpassed in history--but it was the courage of despair; and its result was to bring destruction upon the whole population, as well as upon themselves.

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When Wilfrid Gilmore is orphaned, he is welcomed in by the local clergyman, whose daughter takes notice and teaches him to read and write. When trouble arises in their small fishing village, Wilfrid leaves to join the Royal Navy. Wilfrid's ability to study, along with his determination and hard work, ensures that he is soon moving up in rank. Join Wilfrid and his friends, Tom and Dimchurch, as they share adventures battling pirates (in the West Indies), and the French (in several famous battles). Read on as they meet one of Great Britain's greatest naval heroes: Horatio Nelson. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this book includes more than two hundred geographical, historical, nautical and explanatory footnotes to aid the modern reader.

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century.G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He was a sickly child who had to spend long periods in bed. During his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and developed a wide range of interests which he carried into adulthood. He attended Westminster School, London, and later Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a keen sportsman. He left the university early without completing his degree to volunteer for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was sent to the Crimea and while there he witnessed the appalling conditions under which the British soldier had to fight. His letters home were filled with vivid descriptions of what he saw. His father was impressed by his letters and sent them to The Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them. This initial writing success was a factor in Henty's later decision to accept the offer to become a special correspondent, the early name for journalists now better known as war correspondents. Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in 1859 he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in 1865 after a long illness and shortly after her death Henty began writing articles for the Standard newspaper. In 1866 the newspaper sent him as their special correspondent to report on the Austro-Italian War where he met Giuseppe Garibaldi. He went on to cover the 1868 British punitive expedition to Abyssinia, the Franco-Prussian War, the Ashanti War, the Carlist Rebellion in Spain and the Turco-Serbian War. He also witnessed the opening of the Suez Canal and travelled to Palestine, Russia and India.

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"I am sure I do not know what to do with you, Steve," Lieutenant Embleton said one afternoon as he and his son were sitting upon a bench on the cliff at Ramsgate, looking over the sea. "Upon my word I don't see my way at all; this peace has stranded most of us, and at any rate, so far as I am concerned, there is not a ghost of a chance of my obtaining employment-not that I am fit for it if I could get it. I have been nearly ten years ashore. Every one of us who sailed under Cochrane have been marked men ever since. However, that is an old story, and it is no use grumbling over what cannot be helped; besides, that wound in my hip has been troubling me a good deal of late, and I know I am not fit for sea. I don't think I should have minded so much if I had got post rank before being laid on the shelf. The difference of pension, too, would have been a help, for goodness knows it is hard work making ends meet on a lieutenant's half-pay. However, that is not the question now. The thing that I have got to consider is what is the best thing to do with you.

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"The city of Temixtitan is itself is as big as Seville or Córdoba." ―Hernan Cortes- A Classic Book!- Includes the Original Illustrations

The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with obstacles; defeating an enormously superior force, unsurpassed in the world for courage; and, finally, killing the leader of the enemy and crushing out the last spark of opposition; was a stupendous one. After the death of Gordon, and the retirement of the British troops, there was no force in existence that could have barred the advance of the fanatical hordes of the Mahdi, had they poured down into Egypt. The native Egyptian army was, as yet, in the earliest stage of organization; and could not be relied upon to stand firm against the wild rush of the Dervishes. Fortunately, time was given for that organization to be completed; and when, at last, the Dervish forces marched north, they were repulsed. Assouan was saved, and Wady Halfa became the Egyptian outpost. Gradually, preparations were made for taking the offensive. A railway was constructed along the banks of the Nile, and a mixed force of British and Egyptians drove the enemy beyond Dongola; then, by splendidly organized labour, a railroad was made from Wady Halfa, across the desert, towards the elbow of the great bend from Dongola to Abu Hamed. The latter place was captured, by an Egyptian brigade moving up from the former place; and from that moment, the movement was carried on with irresistible energy. The railway was pushed forward to Abu Hamed; and then southward, past Berber, up to the Atbara river. An army of twenty thousand men, under one of the Khalifa's sons, was attacked in a strong position and defeated with immense loss. Fresh British troops were then brought up; and, escorted by gunboats and steamers carrying provisions, the army marched up the Nile, crushed the Khalifa's great host before Omdurman, and recovered possession of Khartoum.

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Thanks to the care with which the Egyptians depicted upon the walls of their sepulchers the minutest doings of their daily life, to the dryness of the climate which has preserved these records uninjured for so many thousand years, and to the indefatigable labor of modern investigators, we know far more of the manners and customs of the Egyptians, of their methods of work, their sports and amusements, their public festivals, and domestic life, than we do of those of peoples comparatively modern. My object in the present story has been to give you as lively a picture as possible of that life, drawn from the bulky pages of Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson and other writers on the same subject...We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic.

Excerpt from A Roving Commission: Or Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti Old age; hardships and fevers had swept them away wholesale; the trade Of the island dwindled almost to nothing; and at last the condition of the negroes in Hayti has fallen to the level of that of the savage African tribes. Unless some strong white power should occupy the island and enforce law and order, sternly repress crime, and demand a certain amount of labour from all able-bodied men, there seems no hope that any ameli oration can take place in the present situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

There are towns over which time seems to exercise but little power, but to have passed them by forgotten, in his swift course. Everywhere else, at his touch, all is changed. Great cities rise upon the site of fishing villages; huge factories, with their smoky chimneys grow up and metamorphose quiet towns into busy hives of industry; while other cities, once prosperous and flourishing, sink into insignificance; and the passer by, as he wanders through their deserted streets, wonders and laments over the ruin which has fallen upon them.

The usually quiet old town of Dijon was in a state of excitement. There were groups of people in the streets; especially round the corners, where the official placards were posted up. Both at the Prefecture and the Maine there were streams of callers, all day. Every functionary wore an air of importance, and mystery; and mounted orderlies galloped here and there, at headlong speed. The gendarmes had twisted their mustaches to even finer points than usual, and walked about with the air of men who knew all about the matter, and had gone through more serious affairs than this was likely to be.

This inspiring narrative takes place in the medieval times between A.D. 1189 and 1192. Join young Cuthbert de Lance as he accompanies the Kings Crusade. This is the third crusade, taken over by the three Kings leadership. Not very well organized because of the three King's diverse agendas, this bloody war for the liberation of the Holy Sepulcher ends short of its ultimate goal, the re-conquest of Jerusalem. After many battles, losses, and sufferings it comes to a stalemate with Saladin, leader of the extremist Saracens, unifier of the Muslims. The story doesn't end here, it tells of King Richard, also known as the Lion Heart. Richard falls into the hands of Austrian Duke Leopold, who feels betrayed by Richard and blames him for the murder of his relative Montferrat at Jerusalem. Locked away in the Castle Durnstein's prison King Richard waits until he is used as a bargaining chip by the emperor and transferred to another prison, this time in Germany. Only after paying an enormous ransom is he finally set free to travel home. Once home, Richard finds his kingdom in utter chaos, being governed by his treacherous brother John, making him wish he never left in the first place. His brother was trying to steal his Kingdom all along! Meanwhile Cuthbert, our young hero returns home as an honored knight with land and fortune. Can he help King Richard get his Kingdom back under control? What other exciting adventures await in this stories embrace? You will have to read this book to find out! This book was written by the author so this essential part of history would not be forgotten and so our heroes will always be honored and remembered.

The greatest defeat ever experienced by the British Army was in the Mountain Passes of Afghanistan in 1848. Angus Cameron, the hero of this story, was captured by the Afghans, and compelled to witness this calamity. His life story is an intensely interesting one, starting from his boyhood in Persia; his employment under the Government at Herat; through the defense of the town against the Persians; to Kabul, where he participated in all the events which ended in the awful march through the Mountain Passes, where only one man escaped! Always at the point of danger, whether in battle or on a hazardous expedition, the brave young Angus goes on dangerous and thrilling adventures with marvelous and clever escapes! This historical and political narration portrays one of the biggest blunders of Britain-paid in blood! If you like books that are adventurous and full of action, this is one you are going to want to read! The Author published this book so this essential part of our history will not be forgotten and so our heroes of history will always be honored and remembered.

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You are nowadays called upon to acquire so great a mass of learning and information in the period of life between the ages of twelve and eighteen that it is not surprising that but little time can be spared for the study of the history of foreign nations. Most lads are, therefore, lamentably ignorant of the leading events of even the most important epochs of Continental history, although, as many of these events have exercised a marked influence upon the existing state of affairs in Europe, a knowledge of them is far more useful, and, it may be said, far more interesting than that of the comparatively petty affairs of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. Prominent among such epochs is the Thirty Years' War, which arose from the determination of the Emperor of Austria to crush out Protestantism throughout Germany. Since the invasion of the Huns no struggle which has taken place in Europe has approached this in the obstinacy of the fighting and the terrible sufferings which the war inflicted upon the people at large. During these thirty years the population of Germany decreased by nearly a third, and in some of the states half the towns and two-thirds of the villages absolutely disappeared.

A CRIPPLE boy was sitting in a box on four low wheels, in a little room in a small street in Westminster; his age was some fifteen or sixteen years; his face was clear-cut and intelligent, and was altogether free from the expression either of discontent or of shrinking sadness so often seen in the face of those afflicted. Had he been sitting on a chair at a table, indeed, he would have been remarked as a handsome and well-grown young fellow; his shoulders were broad, his arms powerful, and his head erect. He had not been born a cripple, but had been disabled for life, when a tiny child, by a cart passing over his legs above the knees. He was talking to a lad a year or so younger than himself, while a strong, hearty-looking woman, somewhat past middle age, stood at a wash-tub.

There was nothing about Carne's Hold that would have suggested to the mind of the passing stranger that a curse lay upon it. Houses to which an evil history is attached lie almost uniformly in low and damp situations. They are embedded in trees; their appearance is gloomy and melancholy; the vegetation grows rank around them, the drive is overgrown with weeds and mosses, and lichens cling to the walls. Carne's Hold possessed none of these features. It stood high up on the slope of a hill, looking down into the valley of the Dare, with the pretty village of Carnesford nestling among its orchards, and the bright stream sparkling in the sunshine. There was nothing either gloomy or forbidding about its architecture, and the family now simply called their abode The Carnes; the term "Hold" that the country people applied to it was indeed a misnomer, for the bombardiers of Essex had battered the walls of the old fortified house, and had called in the aid of fire to finish the work of destruction. The whole of the present structure was therefore subsequent to that date; it had been added to and altered many times, and each of its owners had followed out his own fancies in utter disregard of those of his predecessors; consequently the house represented a medley of diverse styles, and, although doubtless an architectural monstrosity, was picturesque and pleasing to the eye of men ignorant of the canons of Art.

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A row of brick-built houses with slate roofs, at the edge of a large mining village in Staffordshire. The houses are dingy and colourless, and without relief of any kind. So are those in the next row, so in the street beyond, and throughout the whole village. There is a dreary monotony about the place; and if some giant could come and pick up all the rows of houses, and change their places one with another, it is a question whether the men, now away at work, would notice any difference whatever until they entered the houses standing in the place of those which they had left in the morning. There is a church, and a vicarage half hidden away in the trees in its pretty old-fashioned garden; there are two or three small red-bricked dissenting chapels, and the doctor's house, with a bright brass knocker and plate on the door. There are no other buildings above the common average of mining villages; and it needs not the high chimneys, and engine-houses with winding gear, dotting the surrounding country, to notify the fact that Stokebridge is a mining village.

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