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A historical adventure novel set during the time of the Great Fire of London.

Set in the fourteenth century, during the Scottish fight for independence under William Wallace and Robert Bruce, In Freedom's Cause (1885) combines history and adventure in the rousing tale of young Archie Forbes's coming of age on the battlefields of Scotland, culminating in the great battle of Bannockburn.

Set in the mid-eighteenth century, With Wolfe in Canada follows young hero James Walsham as he leaves his native England and travels to Canada to fight alongside famed commander Major General James Wolfe in his campaigns against the French forces in and around Quebec.

A series of battles in Wales, England, and Scotland during wars for independence. This is a very detailed historical novel of the times and places. Great reading.

As the political and religious upheaval that nearly destroyed England in the seventeenth century began to be resolved, the country was hit with several new challenges, including a devastating fire that ravaged much of London and one of the most severe outbreaks of the plague in history. In this chaotic environment, young protagonist Cyril Shenstone fights to support himself.

My Dear Lads: Thanks to the care with which the Egyptians depicted upon the walls of their sepulchers the minutest doings of their daily life, to the dryness of the climate which has preserved these records uninjured for so many thousand years, and to the indefatigable labor of modern investigators,...

Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so       long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds,       as that of the Seven Years’ War, maintained by Prussia—then a small       and comparatively insignificant kingdom—against Russia,...

A story of the Kyber Rifles and the Afhan Campaign. A thrilling tale of war and herorism.

Set during the Wars of the Roses, Both Sides of the Border (1899) focuses on young Oswald Forster, son of a Scottish border chieftain and squire to Hotspur, the son of the Earl of Northumberland. With the Welsh aristocrat and strong solder Owen Glendower, Oswald fights to free Wales from powerful English rule. 

Wulf, the hero of this 1895 historical adventure, is a young warrior in the service of Earl Harold (who becomes King of England).  Fighting at Harold's side in Wales and against invading Norsemen and Normans, Wulf grows to manhood, winning glory and fame for his prowess and nobility.

Cuthbert, a fifteen-year-old English boy who follows King Richard to the Holy Land, finds his wits and his valor tested in the crucible of the Crusades in this fast-moving Robin Hood–style adventure.