The Selected Works of George Alfred Henty

The Selected Works of George Alfred Henty

Author: George Alfred Henty

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published:

Total Pages: 37344

ISBN-13: 1465527354

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You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed—that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as well as Peace. You will learn from tales like this that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvels, that true courage is generally accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness, and that if not in itself the very highest of virtues, it is the parent of almost all the others, since but few of them can be practiced without it. The courage of our forefathers has created the greatest empire in the world around a small and in itself insignificant island; if this empire is ever lost, it will be by the cowardice of their descendants. At no period of her history did England stand so high in the eyes of Europe as in the time whose events are recorded in this volume. A chivalrous king and an even more chivalrous prince had infected the whole people with their martial spirit, and the result was that their armies were for a time invincible, and the most astonishing successes were gained against numbers which would appear overwhelming. The victories of Cressy and Poitiers may be to some extent accounted for by superior generalship and discipline on the part of the conquerors; but this will not account for the great naval victory over the Spanish fleet off the coast of Sussex, a victory even more surprising and won against greater odds than was that gained in the same waters centuries later over the Spanish Armada. The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians, as collated and compared by Mr. James in his carefully written history. They may therefore be relied upon as accurate in every important particular.


The Boy Knight

The Boy Knight

Author: G. A. Henty

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486115852

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This story of medieval life follows the remarkable adventures of young Cuthbert de Lance, a lad who serves as a page to an English nobleman during the Third Crusade.


The Cat of Bubastes

The Cat of Bubastes

Author: George Alfred Henty

Publisher: London : Blackie & Son

Published: 1889

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.


In Freedom's Cause

In Freedom's Cause

Author: George Alfred Henty

Publisher: London : Blackie

Published: 1885

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.


The complete works of G. A. Henty

The complete works of G. A. Henty

Author: George Alfred Henty

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 15259

ISBN-13:

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George Alfred Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent best known for his historical adventure stories. A contemporaries described him as a man of strong will, reasonable ambitions and a hard, steady worker. Henty wrote about eighty books for boys. A young man who worked as his secretary for two years said that Henty used to walkup and down his study smoking his clay pipe and reeling off stories just as fast as the secretary could take them down. Best known for adventure stories such as The Young Bugler, Under Drake's Flag, With Clive in India, When London Burned: Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire, Moore at Corunna, At Aboukir and Acre, A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, With Buller in Natal, With Roberts to Pretoria and With Kitchener in the Soudan, In Freedom's Cause, Under Drake's Flag, In Times of Peril, The Lion of the North and In the Reign of Terror.


Tales of Daring and Danger

Tales of Daring and Danger

Author: G. A. Henty

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 3387311761

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