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James Grant. The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours"
The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours"
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE ROMANCE OF A MONTH
CHAPTER II. THE GUARDA COSTA
CHAPTER III. JACK SLINGSBY
CHAPTER IV. THE VENTA
CHAPTER V. THE REGIMENT OF SAN ANTONIO
CHAPTER VI. LA POSADA DEL CAVALLO
CHAPTER VII. THE HALT IN A CORK WOOD
CHAPTER VIII. THE ALCALDE
CHAPTER IX. THE TERTULIA
CHAPTER X. DON FABRIQUE
CHAPTER XI. THE RATERILLO
CHAPTER XII. LA RIO DE MUERTE
CHAPTER XIII. PEDRO THE CONTRABANDISTA
CHAPTER XIV. THE SPANISH STEAMER
CHAPTER XV. THE CIRCASSIAN CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XVI. OSMAN RIONI
CHAPTER XVII. THE HUSSARS OF TENGINSKI
CHAPTER XVIII. ZUPI
CHAPTER XIX. WE REACH HEAD-QUARTERS
CHAPTER XX. ST. FLORIDAN; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT
CHAPTER XXI. THE WIDOW; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. PEREZ, THE POTTER; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAJOR'S STORY
CHAPTER XXIV "ESTELLA."
CHAPTER XXV. A LEGEND OF FIFE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PHANTOM REGIMENT—THE QUARTERMASTER'S STORY
CHAPTER XXVII. THE PHANTOM REGIMENT.—THE UNCO' QUEST
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PHANTOM REGIMENT—THE MIDNIGHT MARCH
CHAPTER XXIX. THE LAST OF DON FABRIQUE
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James Grant
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Again the lintstock fell on the touch-hole; again the gun-shot rolled along the echoing shore, and pealed away to seaward; a large white splinter was seen on the gunwale of the guarda costa; her sails shivered and flapped in the wind, as the ball struck her, and suddenly backing her mainyard, she lay to, heaving like a wounded seabird, on the long glassy ridges of the ground-swell, ere the burst of applause with which our soldiers greeted Slingsby had died away—for my friend Jack was one of their most favourite officers.
"You did for her, there, sir," said the gunner, approvingly, as he rammed home the sponge.
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