Moyle Sherer: 3 books

Captain Sherer’s record of service in the Peninsular War is second to none. A hard campaigner, he served with the 34th Foot at Busaco, Badajoz, Albuera, Arroyo Molinos, Vittoria and the Pyrenees, during which he was taken prisoner by the advancing French. In this, his service was no different to...

It is impossible to read or meditate concerning that period of history in which the scene and action of my tale are laid without partaking of the feelings of both parties in that great quarrel, and “being (in an innocent sense) on both sides.” In such a spirit has my story been conceived and written....

The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War Volume 2 CHAPTER I. And now, good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare. Donne. The noble spirit of Katharine Heywood was severely exercised by those disclosures of Jane Lambert which have been related in a former...