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The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough

G. A. Henty

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .They are pirates—I guess the same two vessels I heard them talking about down at Rio. They have been doing no end of damage there. There were pretty nigh a dozen ships missing, and they put them all down to them. However, a couple of English frigates had come into Rio, and hearing what had happened had gone out to chase them. They hadn't caught them, and the Brazilians thought that they had shifted their quarters and gone for a cruise in other latitudes.

"'The description they gave of them answered to these two—a brig and a schooner, with low hulls and tall spars. One of them carries ten guns, the other two on each side, and a heavy piece mounted on a swivel amidship. It was said that before they went down to Brazil they had been carrying on their games among the West India Islands, and had made it so hot for themselves that they had been obliged to move off from there. It was like enough that, now the hue and cry after them had abated, they would . . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a good read

I enjoyed the book very much. I would recommend this book to my friends and family. It did take me a while to read because occasionally I lost interest. This was more likely my fault, not the books.

This was one of the more choppy of Henty's works. While still interesting, it wasn't one of the better ones.

I found this 150 year old book at a yard sale, and paid 1 dollar for it because it intrigued me. Finished Bravest of the Brave over the weekend, a terrific story of a military leader thinking far ahead of his time. The earl of Peterbourgh was brilliant in his pursuit of French forces across Spain, u