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In George Alfred Henty''s captivating novel, ''The Young Carthaginian'', readers are transported to ancient Carthage during the tumultuous period of the Punic Wars. Henty''s meticulous attention to historical detail and vivid descriptions of battle scenes immerse the reader in the ancient world, making this a thrilling historical adventure. The book is written in a style that balances action-packed scenes with introspective moments, allowing readers to engage with the characters on a deeper level. ''The Young Carthaginian'' is a valuable addition to the genre of historical fiction, providing both entertainment and educational value for readers of all ages.

One day, when Jack came up from his rounds at ten o''clock, to eat his breakfast and write up his journal of the state of the mine, he saw Mr. Brook (the owner of the mine) and the manager drive up to the pit mouth. Jack shrank back from the little window of the office where he was writing, and did not look out again until he knew that they had descended the mine; he did not wish to have any appearance of thrusting himself forward. For another hour he wrote; and then the window of the office flew in pieces, the chairs danced, and the walls rocked, while a dull heavy roar, like distant thunder, burst upon his ears. Jack leaped to his feet and rushed to the door. Black smoke was pouring up from the pit''s mouth, sticks and pieces of wood and coal were falling in a shower in the yard; and Jack saw that his worst fears had been realized, and that a terrible explosion had taken place in the Vaughan pit. For a moment he stood stunned. There were, he knew, over three hundred men and boys in the pit, and he turned faint and sick as the thought of their fate came across him. Then he ran towards the top of the shaft. The bankman lay insensible at a distance of some yards from the pit, where he had been thrown by the force of the explosion. Two or three men came running up with white scared faces. The smoke had nearly ceased already; the damage was done, and a deadly stillness seemed to reign.

The Young Buglers is a fascinating (and often hilarious) adventure written by George Alfred Henty. The novel tells the story of two young English boys, Tom and Peter Scudamore, who are buglers for an English regiment in Portugal and serve with distinction during the hard-fought battles of the Peninsular War, a military conflict between Napoleon''s empire and Bourbon Spain (assisted by the United Kingdom and its ally, Portugal) for control of the Iberian Peninsula.George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include Out on the Pampas (1871), The Young Buglers (1880), With Clive in India (1884) and Wulf the Saxon (1895).

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Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley''s mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.

"Mr. Henty not only concocts a thrilling tale, he weaves fact and fiction together with so skilful a hand that the reader cannot help acquiring a just and clear view of that fierce and terrible struggle which gave to us our Indian Empire." -Athenaeum. The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib (1895) by George Alfred Henty, is a story in which Dick Holland''s father is supposed to be one of the English captives in the hands of that bloodthirsty tyrant, Tippoo Saib, who is known in history as "The Tiger of Mysore ". So Dick, who is a spirited lad, resolves to proceed to India, gain tidings of his father, and help him to escape, if possible. Accordingly he sails for Madras.... George Alfred Henty (1832 - 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. "The Tiger of Mysore" was well regarded at the time of its publication: "This is a very vigorous picture which Mr. Henty has drawn for his readers. . . . The descriptions of the campaigns against Tippoo . . . are, of course, capital reading, and really invaluable. The Tiger of Mylore is an admirable specimen of this kind of historical fiction."-The Spectator "Those who have read any one of Mr. Henty''s tales will be sure to welcome this also, and after reading it will be glad to see more from the same skilled and clever hand." -Asiatic Quarterly Mr. Henty''s well-known stories, illustrative of British wars and British pluck, though perhaps mainly written for the purpose of instructing the young in history through the happy medium of personal narratives, may well be read, as extremely adventurous tales, by older persons; for his facts are accurate, his descriptions graphic, his plots simple yet effective, and his characters well drawn and admirable. If there be a slight overcharge of the heroic in personal adventures, that only adds a more spicy and pleasing flavour to his tales. The present one is quite equal to any of its numerous predecessors, and that, in itself is no little praise. The Tiger of Mysore is the notorious but now almost forgotten tyrant, Tippu Sahib of Seringapatam; the tale turns on his cruel and changeable disposition, constant only in his hatred of the British; and the thrilling interest of the reader in a pathetic, beautiful and well told story is fully maintained till the very last page. Other works by Henty include: The Boy Knight A Tale of the Crusades The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt Wulf the Saxon In the Reign of Terror Under Drake''s Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main In Freedom''s Cause The Young Carthaginian Beric the Briton For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem A Tale of the Western Plains The Cat of Bubastes With Lee in Virginia True to the Old Flag Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War The Treasure of the Incas The Lion of the North Through Russian Snows Under Drake''s Flag Among Malay Pirates With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire By Conduct and Courage When London Burned No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez In Mexico The Lion of St. Mark With Wolfe in Canada The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough''s Wars St.Bartholomew''s Eve Jack Archer Bonnie Prince Charlie Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots The Young Carthaginian The Dash for Khartoum Won by the Sword

"I wish most heartily that something would happen," Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty''s gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid stream that rolled past the ship as she lay at anchor. "One day is just like another-one is in a state of perspiration from morning till night, and from night till morning. There seems to be always a mist upon the water; and if it were not that we get up steam every three or four days and run out for twenty-four hours for a breath of fresh air, I believe that we should be all eaten up with fever in no time. Of course, they are always talking of Malay pirates up the river kicking up a row; but it never seems to come off."

"Among Malay Pirates And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril" from George Alfred Henty. Prolific English novelist and special correspondent (1832-1902).

"A Jacobite Exile" from George Alfred Henty. Prolific English novelist and special correspondent (1832-1902).

It is afternoon, but the sun''s rays still pour down with great power upon rock and sand. How great the heat has been at midday may be seen by the quivering of the air as it rises from the ground and blurs all distant objects. It is seen, too, in the attitudes and appearance of a large body of soldiers encamped in a grove. Their arms are thrown aside, the greater portion of their clothing has been dispensed with. Some lie stretched on the ground in slumber, their faces protected from any chance rays which may find their way through the foliage above by little shelters composed of their clothing hung on two bows or javelins. Some, lately awakened, are sitting up or leaning against the trunks of the trees, but scarce one has energy to move. The day has indeed been a hot one even for the southern edge of the Libyan desert. The cream coloured oxen stand with their heads down, lazily whisking away with their tails the flies that torment them. The horses standing near suffer more; the lather stands on their sides, their flanks heave, and from time to time they stretch out their extended nostrils in the direction from which, when the sun sinks a little lower, the breeze will begin to blow. The occupants of the grove are men of varied races, and, although there is no attempt at military order, it is clear at once that they are divided into three parties. One is composed of men more swarthy than the others. They are lithe and active in figure, inured to hardship, accustomed to the burning sun. Light shields hang against the trees with bows and gaily painted quivers full of arrows, and near each man are three or four light short javelins. They wear round caps of metal, with a band of the skin of the lion or other wild animal, in which are stuck feathers dyed with some bright colour. They are naked to the waist, save for a light breastplate of brass. A cloth of bright colours is wound round their waist and drops to the knees, and they wear belts of leather embossed with brass plates; on their feet are sandals. They are the light armed Numidian horse. Near them are a party of men lighter in hue, taller and stouter in stature. Their garb is more irregular, their arms are bare, but they wear a sort of shirt, open at the neck and reaching to the knees, and confined at the waist by a leather strap, from which hangs a pouch of the same material. Their shirts, which are of roughly made flannel, are dyed a colour which was originally a deep purple, but which has faded, under the heat of the sun, to lilac. They are a company of Iberian slingers, enlisted among the tribes conquered in Spain by the Carthaginians. By them lie the heavy swords which they use in close quarters. The third body of men are more heavily armed. On the ground near the sleepers lie helmets and massive shields. They have tightly fitting jerkins of well-tanned leather, their arms are spears and battleaxes. They are the heavy infantry of Carthage. Very various is their nationality; fair skinned Greeks lie side by side with swarthy negroes from Nubia. Sardinia, the islands of the Aegean, Crete and Egypt, Libya and Phoenicia are all represented there.

The adventures of Gregory Hartley, who experiences the reconquest of the Sudan by the British Army in 1898.

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.

In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado.

Shamed by his mother''s scheme to use him for financial gain from a wealthy colonel, Edgar joins the British cavalry, soon to become part of the ill-fated Nile Expedition. In Africa, Edgar is kidnapped by an Arab chieftain, and his brother Rupert, who has become part of the Expedition, sets out to search for him.

It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after party of armed men riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham.

Retelling of the fight between the original Irish owners and Cromwell followers over Irish soil.