Ride With Me

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Thomas B. Costain. Ride With Me

Ride With Me

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I. England

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BOOK II. The Peninsula

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BOOK III. England, Again

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BOOK IV. Russia

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BOOK V. France

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Postscript

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Thomas B. Costain

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“A glass of port? I’ll send for some biscuits. We seem to be doing things rather better than back in ’94 when our paths first crossed, Sir Arthur.”

Wellesley sat down in front of the fire, swinging one trim shank over the other. The tilt of his high-arched nose suggested that he found some offense in the presence of Charles François Dumouriez, and he kept his eyes fixed stonily on that morose individual. “Rather,” he said. He leaned over and clapped his host on the knee. “That was a damned bad mess, Wilson. We were lucky to get out of it with our lives. I didn’t expect to.” He threw back his head in a sudden and high-pitched laugh. “I thought once there that I was going to be called on to sit in a court-martial on you, young Sir Robert. If that raid you and Calcraft made on Pichegru’s headquarters hadn’t turned out so damned well, by Gad, the pair of you would have been called to account for moving without orders. You were devilish lucky that none of your men were lost.”

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