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By: George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) | |
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With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and comparatively insignificant kingdom--against Russia, Austria, and France simultaneously, who were aided also by the forces of most of the minor principalities of Germany. The population of Prussia was not more than five millions, while that of the Allies considerably exceeded a hundred millions... | |
With Clive in India
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India--and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into British hands; but these were but the sequel of the events described. | |
The Young Buglers | |
Young Carthaginian
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: "...certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly... | |
With Lee in Virginia
Vincent Wingfield is the son of a wealthy Virginian planter. When the country goes to war, he enlists in the cavalry, and sees action under the various generals commanding the army in and near Virginia. He has several private adventures as well, including a personal enemy, prison escape, rescue of a young lady, spying expedition, and recovery of a stolen slave. He rises in rank in the Confederate army, and after the war is over, he marries and returns home to manage his mother's plantation. Henty in this book gives an overview of the causes of the Civil War, and follows the battles and movements of the army in Virginia and the surrounding area... | |
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale Of The Spanish Main
An exciting tale set on the high seas, in a period ruled by exploration, with the ever-present dangers of nature and the weather, together with pirates of the famed Spanish Main. | |
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of no small portion of India; their territory comprising the whole country between Bombay and Delhi, and stretching down from Rajputana to Allahabad; while in the south they were lords of the district of Cuttack, thereby separating Madras from Calcutta. The jealousies of the great Mahratta... | |
The Boy Knight | |
Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War | |
The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus | |
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee | |
A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia | |
The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars | |
Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
This is a tale of the son of a Scottish officer, who gets arrested for helping a Jacobite agent. Set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland in 1755, the boy escapes and makes it to France and shares some adventures with Prince Charlie. | |
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along to benefit from a wholesome story full of historical facts in good, old Henty fashion. (Introduction by Jenn Raimundo) | |
Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower | |
By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson | |
Wulf the Saxon | |
Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War | |
At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt | |
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke, who is subsequently sent home to England, where he dies of wounds received and bequeaths the bracelet to his relatives, having told his brother about it, but not its location. Meanwhile, the theft has caused a stir in India, and the Hindu faithful regard it as their religious duty to reclaim the jewel at any cost. Also published under the title: "The Brahmin's Treasure". | |
The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars | |
Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines | |
With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War | |
Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War | |
Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia | |
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain | |
By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War | |
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades | |
Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti | |
With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman | |
A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden |