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A Roving Commission

by G. A. Henty

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Young Nat Glover joins the Royal Navy and is soon fighting a bloodhound, raiding a slave depot and storming a pirate hold in the West Indies. He is then caught up in the revolution on Saint-Domingue, hiding and fighting through the island’s years of slaughter as British forces intervene.

Henty at full gallop, but his preface and story are bluntly hostile to the Haitian revolutionaries, with the racial attitudes of an imperial Briton of 1900. Download the free EPUB.

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