The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents

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Barton George Aaron. The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents

The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents

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The World’s Greatest Military. Spies and Secret Service Agents

I. THE ALSATIAN SMUGGLER WHO HELPED NAPOLEON TO CAPTURE THE AUSTRIAN ARMY

II. BELLE BOYD, THE CONFEDERATE GIRL WHO SAVED STONEWALL JACKSON

III. THE INDIAN SCOUT WHO WAS THE HERO OF KING PHILIP’S WAR

IV. HOW THE SUICIDE OF A STAFF OFFICER ONCE AVERTED WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA

V. THE ROMANTIC SIDE OF MAJOR ANDRÉ’S UNSUCCESSFUL EXPLOIT

VI. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE CHEVALIER D’EON AT THE RUSSIAN COURT

VII. HOW NAPOLEON’S CHIEF SPY HOODWINKED THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA

VIII. LYDIA DARRAH, THE BRAVE QUAKERESS WHO SAVED WASHINGTON’S ARMY FROM DESTRUCTION

IX. DOCTOR STEIBER AND THE MYSTERY OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

X. THE ADVENTURE OF PRIVATE MORGAN IN THE CAMP OF CORNWALLIS

XI. THE MYSTERIOUS AND ROMANTIC CASE OF GENERAL NAPPER TANDY

XII. HOW MONSIEUR DE MEINAU HELPED TO MAKE JEROME BONAPARTE KING OF WESTPHALIA

XIII. THE STRANGE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE BETRAYAL OF CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE

XIV. MAJOR LE CARON AND THE FENIAN INVASION OF CANADA

XV. HOW EMMA EDMONDS PENETRATED THE CONFEDERATE LINES

XVI. THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL LAFAYETTE C. BAKER

XVII. THE MYSTERIOUS “F” AND THE CAPTURED TROOPERS

XVIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MAN WHO ASKED FOR A LIGHT

XIX. CARL LODY AND SPIES OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR

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George Barton

Published by Good Press, 2019

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General Mack was impressed with the great strength of his troops and felt that he could easily overcome Napoleon with the superiority of his numbers. Schulmeister learned of this over-confidence and was all the more anxious to reach the big man. Captain Wend undertook to present the Alsatian to Mack. It proved to be easy. The Austrian commander was not anxious to move unless it was necessary, and when he learned that there was a man in the vicinity who had been in the camp of Napoleon he was eager to meet him.

Schulmeister was bidden to come into his presence and told to describe all that he had seen in the camp of the “enemy.” He did so with a vividness of imagination that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen.

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