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Title: The Coming Conquest of England

Author: August Niemann

Translator: J. H. Freese

Release Date: May 13, 2006 [EBook #2026]

Language: English

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Produced by Donald Lainson

THE COMING CONQUEST OF ENGLAND

by August Niemann

Translated by J. H. Freese

CONTENTS

I. THE COUNCIL OF STATE

II. THE OFFICERS' MESS

III. A RUSSIAN COMRADE

IV. THE CIRCASSIAN BEAUTY

V. THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE

VI. THE OUTRAGE

VII. THE MAHARAJAH

VIII. THE PAMIRS

IX. THE GERMAN EMPEROR

X. FIVE LAKHS OF RUPEES

XI. THE MOBILISATION

XII. THE CAMP OF LAHORE

XIII. THE BATTLE

XIV. IN THE PANIC-STRICKEN CITY

XV. THE COURT-MARTIAL

XVI. THE PROFESSOR

XVII. DOWNING STREET

XVIII. THE YOUNG RUSSIAN CAPTAIN OF DRAGOONS

XIX. ON THE ROAD TO SIMLA

XX. A FRIEND IN NEED

XXI. EDITH'S ADVENTURES

XXII. THE ETHICS OF ESPIONAGE

XXIII. HOMEWARD BOUND

XXIV. THE ADVENTURES OF THE CALEDONIA

XXV. A SUSPICIOUS FISHING-SMACK

XXVI. CAMILLE PENUROT

XXVII. EBERHARD AMELUNGEN

XXVIII. THE FATE OF A SPY

XXIX. A WOMAN'S TREACHERY

XXX. EDITH'S LAST JOURNEY

XXXI. THE STOLEN DOCUMENT

XXXII. NEWS OF AN OLD FRIEND

XXXIII. THE LANDING IN SCOTLAND

XXXIV. THE BATTLE OF FLUSHING

XXXV. AT HAMPTON COURT

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

I recall to mind a British colonel, who said to me in Calcutta: "This is
the third time that I have been sent to India. Twenty-five years ago, as
lieutenant, and then the Russians were some fifteen hundred miles from
the Indian frontier; then, six years since, as captain, and the Russians
were then only five hundred miles away. A year ago I came here as
lieutenant-colonel, and the Russians are right up to the passes leading
to India."

The map of the world unfolds itself before me. All seas are ploughed
by the keels of English vessels, all coasts dotted with the coaling
stations and fortresses of the British world-power. In Eng