The Lion of the North
by G. A. Henty
1886
ISBN/ASIN: 1887159436
Number of pages: 305
Description:
A praiseworthy attempt to interest British youth in the great deeds of the Scotch Brigade in the wars of Gustavus Adolphus. Mackay, Hepburn, and Munro live again in Mr. Henty's pages, as those deserve to live whose disciplined bands formed really the germ of the modern British army.
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