eBooks - Children - Fiction - G. A. Henty - Won by the Sword
Won by the Sword eBooks
by G. A. Henty
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Won by the Sword Summary
| Join Hector Campbell, the fictitious hero of this historically-accurate novel, as he faces the trials and tribulations of the Thirty Years’ War. The son of a Scottish officer in France’s militia, Hector is orphaned and must deal with the treachery of the war on his own. Won by the Sword, written by one of the most well-known period novelists, is an exciting account of one of history’s most famous eras. |
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| De Malo was as anxious to bring on a general engagement as was his fiery opponent. He was kept well informed of what was going on in Paris, and knew that the king's death was imminent. His position on a plain, surrounded on all sides by woods and marshes with but one approach, and that through a narrow defile, was practically impregnable; and by occupying the defile he could have kept the French at bay without the slightest difficulty until Rocroi surrendered. He knew, too, that General Beck with a considerable force was hastening to join him; but he feared that prudent counsels might at the last moment prevail in the French camp, or that the news of the king's death might reach them, and he therefore left the defile open and allowed the French army to gain the plain and form up in order of battle facing him, without offering the slightest opposition or firing a single gun. |
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