By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War

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Henty George Alfred. By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War

CHAPTER I: A FISHING EXCURSION

CHAPTER II: A MAD DOG

CHAPTER III: A TOUGH YARN

CHAPTER IV: A RISING TIDE

CHAPTER V: ALONE IN THE WORLD

CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST STEP

CHAPTER VII: AN OLD FRIEND

CHAPTER VIII: TO THE DARK CONTINENT

CHAPTER IX: THE START INLAND

CHAPTER X: LOST IN THE FOREST

CHAPTER XI: A HOSTILE TRIBE

CHAPTER XII: A NEGRO’S STORY

CHAPTER XIII: A FUGITIVE SLAVE

CHAPTER XIV: A CHRISTIAN TOWN

CHAPTER XV: THE AMAZONS OF DAHOMET

CHAPTER XVI: CAPTIVES IN COOMASSIE

CHAPTER XVII: THE INVASION OF FANTI LAND

CHAPTER XVIII: THE ATTACK ON ELMINA

CHAPTER XIX: THE TIDE TURNED

CHAPTER XX: THE WHITE TROOPS

CHAPTER XXI: THE ADVANCE TO THE PRAH

CHAPTER XXII: THE BATTLE OF AMOAFUL

CHAPTER XXIII: THE CAPTURE OF COOMASSIE

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“Don’t you think, Hargate,” Ruthven shouted in his ear, “we had better run before it? It’s as much as Handcock can do to keep her head straight.”

“Yes,” Frank shouted back, “if it were not for the Goodwins. They lie right across ahead of us.”

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“I have no right to trespass on your wheat, sir,” Frank said firmly; “but you have no right to strike us. My name is Frank Hargate. I belong to Dr. Parker’s school at Deal, and if you will say what damage I have caused, I will pay for it.”

“You shall pay for it now,” shouted the farmer, as he advanced with uplifted stick.

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