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One of the 28th, by G. A. Henty
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Title: One of the 28th
Author: G. A. Henty
Release Date: December 9, 2004 [eBook #14313]
Language: English
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ONE OF THE 28TH
A Tale of Waterloo
by
G. A. HENTY
Author of Bonnie Prince Charlie, With Clive in India, The Dragon and the Raven, The Young Carthaginian, The Lion of the North
Illustrated
A.L. Burt Company Publishers, New York
PREFACE
Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage fully equal to that necessary for those who take part in active warfare. Boys are rather apt to think, mistakenly, that their sex has a monopoly of courage, but I believe that in moments of great peril women are to the full as brave and as collected as men. Indeed, my own somewhat extensive experience leads me to go even further, and to assert that among a civil population, untrained to arms, the average woman is cooler and more courageous than the average man. Wo