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"He is an idle vagabond!" the mayor of the good town of Southampton said, in high wrath--"a ne'er do well, and an insolent puppy; and as to you, Mistress Alice, if I catch you exchanging words with him again, ay, or nodding to him, or looking as if in any way you were conscious of his presence, I will put you on bread and water, and will send you away for six months to the care of my sister Deborah, who will, I warrant me, bring you to your senses." The Mayor of Southampton must have been very angry indeed when he spoke in this. | The Bravest of the Brave 1 The Bravest of the Brave The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bravest of the Brave by G. A. Henty 20 in our series by G. A. Henty Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title The Bravest of the Brave or with Peterborough in Spain Author G. A. Henty Release Date January 2005 EBook 7318 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on April 11 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE This eBook was produced by Martin Robb The Bravest of the Brave or With Peterborough in Spain by G. A. Henty. PREFACE My Dear Lads There are few great leaders whose lives and actions have so completely fallen into oblivion as those of the Earl of Peterborough. His career as a general was a brief one extending only over little more than a year and yet in that time he showed a genius for warfare which has never been surpassed and performed feats of daring worthy of taking their place among those of the leaders of chivalry. The fact that they have made so slight a mark upon history is due to several reasons. In the first place they were overshadowed by the .