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Title: For Name and Fame
Or Through Afghan Passes
Author: G. A. Henty
Release Date: June 30, 2007 [eBook #21979]
Language: English
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FOR NAME AND FAME
Or Through Afghan Passes
by
G. A. HENTY.
Contents
Preface.
Chapter 1: The Lost Child.
Chapter 2: The Foundling.
Chapter 3: Life On A Smack.
Chapter 4: Run Down.
Chapter 5: The Castaways.
Chapter 6: The Attack On The Village.
Chapter 7: The Fight With The Prahus.
Chapter 8: The Torpedo.
Chapter 9: The Advance Into Afghanistan.
Chapter 10: The Peiwar-Khotal.
Chapter 11: A Prisoner.
Chapter 12: The Advance Up The Khyber.
Chapter 13: The Massacre At Cabul.
Chapter 14: The Advance Upon Cabul.
Chapter 15: The Fighting Round Cabul.
Chapter 16: The Fight In The Pass.
Chapter 17: At Candahar.
Chapter 18: On The Helmund.
Chapter 19: The Battle Of Maiwand.
Chapter 20: Candahar.
Chapter 21: The Battle Of Candahar.
Chapter 22: At Home At Last.
Illustrations
Sam Dickson finds little Willie Gale.
Will and Hans in Search of a Shelter.
Captain Herbert saved.
William Gale in the hands of the Afghans.
One of the Gunpowder Magazines had Exploded.
Letters from the General.
Will saves Colonel Ripon.
Gundi carried by the Bayonet.
Preface.
In following the hero of this story through the last Afghan war,
you will be improving your acquaintance with a country which is of
supreme importance to the British Empire and, at the same time, be
able to trace the operations by which Lord Roberts made his great
reputation a
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