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Title: The Young Franc Tireurs
And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War

Author: G. A. Henty

Illustrator: F. T. Young

Release Date: July 13, 2007 [EBook #22060]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Young Franc Tireurs
And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
By G. A. Henty.

Contents

Preface.
Chapter 1: The Outbreak Of War.
Chapter 2: Terrible News.
Chapter 3: Death To The Spy!
Chapter 4: Starting For The Vosges.
Chapter 5: The First Engagement.
Chapter 6: The Tunnel Of Saverne.
Chapter 7: A Baffled Project.
Chapter 8: The Traitor.
Chapter 9: A Desperate Fight.
Chapter 10: The Bridge Of The Vesouze.
Chapter 11: A Fight In The Vosges.
Chapter 12: The Surprise.
Chapter 13: The Escape.
Chapter 14: A Perilous Expedition.
Chapter 15: The Expedition.
Chapter 16: A Desperate Attempt.
Chapter 17: A Balloon Voyage.
Chapter 18: A Day Of Victory.
Chapter 19: Down At Last.
Chapter 20: Crossing The Lines.
Chapter 21: Home.

Illustrations

Rescue of a Supposed Spy.
Among the German Soldiers.
The Children on the Battlefield.
The Sea! The Sea!

Preface.

My Dear Lads,

The present story was written and published a few months, only,
after the termination of the Franco-German war. At that time the
plan--which I have since carried out in The Young Buglers, Cornet
of Horse, and In Times of Peril, and which I hope to continue, in
further volumes--of giving, under the guise of historical tales,
full and accurate accounts of all the leading events of great wars,
had not occurred to me. My object was only to represent one phase
of the struggle--the action of the bodies of volunteer troops known
as franc tireurs.

The story is laid in France and is, therefore, written from the
French point of view. The names, places, and dates have been
changed; but circumstances and incidents are true. There were a
good many English among the franc tireurs, and boys of from fifteen
to sixteen were by no means uncommon in