Preface [v-vi]
In compiling this record of heroic and adventurous deeds, the Editor has endeavoured to avoid as much as possible those which are best known, and which have been most often told. At the same time, when the genius of the modern historian has given a fresh life to world-renowned scenes, she has not hesitated to give her young readers the pleasure of seeing them thus described. From the old Naval Chronicles of the early part of the century, and from some books which are not quite as popular as they deserve to be, a few little-known anecdotes (but worthy of all fame) have been disinterred. The record ranges from the fourteenth century to the present day; beginning with some extracts from a valuable book which ought to be a great favourite with boys, the Historical Parallels, and continuing, chiefly, in the words of the actors in the adventures themselves; who are frequently first-rate writers as well as brave and adventurous men. [vi] The Editor trusts that the perusal of these extracts, and the force of examples thus presented to them, may nourish in British lads the dauntless spirit which speaks in the Cameron motto: “Whatever men dare they may do.”
Contents
A Brave Patient after Magenta 356Account of the Loss of the Hope 282
A Conversation with Lady Hester Stanhope 140
Adventure of Captain Shakspeare with a Panther 316
Adventures in Eastern Africa 385
Adventures of Agatha Larochejaquelein 252
Adventures of a Protestant Pastor at the Siege of Magdeburg 38
Adventures of Captain John Smith in Virginia 35
Adventures of Captain Wilson 195
Adventures of John Oxenham 24
Adventures of Olave and Andrew Engelbrechtsen 47
Adventures with a Grizzly Bear 181
Adventure with a Bison 102
Adventure with a Black-maned Lion 84
Adventure with a Grizzly Bear 165
Adventure with a Lion 84
Adventure with an Elephant 150
Adventure with an Elephant 164
Adventure with the Red Indians 70
A Fire Hunt 118
A Gallant Hunter’s Story 212
A Generous and Heroic Officer 199
A Hunter’s Account of his Escape from a Moose-bull 298
A Lady’s Escape from Murder 158
Alexander Campbell 56
A Little Heroine 210
American Heroism 372
An Adventure in Lapland 245
An Adventure with a Lion 220
Anecdote of Admiral Keppel 143
Anecdote of a Brave Dog at the Alma 375
Anecdote of a Sailor 16
Anecdote of Captain Peel 333
Anecdote of Dr. Thomson 377
Anecdote of Lord Howe 142
Anecdote of Sailors at Siege of Sebastopol 377
Anecdote of Sir Charles Napier 318
Anecdote of Sir John Leake 46
Anecdote of the Alps 248
Anecdote of the Duke of Wellington 201
Anecdote of Wounded Soldiers after Alma 376
Anecdotes of Captain Russell 95
Anecdotes of Heroism during the French Revolution 217
Anecdotes of Sir Samuel Hood 68
Anecdotes of the Siege of Ancona 5
An Exciting Story 390
Anna Garibaldi 319
Another Account of the Charge of the Light Brigade 377
Arnold Von Winkelried 1
A Scene during the Battle of San Martino, 24th June, 1859 356
Assault on Fort St. Christovat-Second Siege of Badajos – The Forlorn Hope 276
Battle of lnkerman 342
Bayard’s Page 15
Brave Boys 365
Burying a Gallant Foe 111
Buried under an Avalanche 250
Captain Martin’s Stratagem 215
Charge of the Heavy Brigade 337
Colter the Trapper’s Escape from the Red Indians 177
Crocodile Hunt on the Nile 162
Death of Gustavus Adolphus 44
Death of Madame Roland 256
Death of Marie Antoinette 253
Death of Sir Peter Parker 284
Death of Sir Thomas More 22
Death of the “Hero of a Hundred Fights” 185
Discovery of the Pacific Ocean 19
Dutch Heroism in the Nineteenth Century 309
English and American Heroism at Saratoga 74
English Heroes and French Honours 352
Escape from Shipwreck 322
Escape of Charles II from Worcester Field 50
Escape of Colonel Waters 26?
Escape of Da Costa from the Inquisition 166
Escape of Jacopo Casanova 323
Escape of Sir Sidney Smith from the Temple 113
Escape of the Good and Gallant Riou 127
Escape of the Sumter 367
Fortitude and Heroism of a Marine 144
Gallant Action 198
Gallant Action in the Mediterranean 188
Gallant Adventures during the American War 358
Gallantry of Captain Alms 65
Gallantry of a French Woodsman in America 175
Grant’s Escape 190
Heroic Boy 117
Heroic Defence of Brescia 12
Heroic Women 251
Heroism at Balaclava 331
Heroism at the Alma 327
Heroism at Waterloo 302
Heroism in the Crimea 334
Heroism in La Vendée 223
Heroism of a Child 294
Heroism of a Lady 148
Heroism of a Midshipman 184
Heroism of a Woman 161
Heroism of Captain Harvey, on the glorious First of June, 1794 144
Heroism of Faith 79
Heroism of the Knights of St. John 16
Intrepidity and Skill 242
Life-boat Gallantry 208
One Niche the Highest – A Boy’s Adventure 154
Remarkable Combination of Courage and Seamanship 149
Remarkable Escape from an Elephant 88
Retreat of Marshal Ney from Moscow 288
Retreat of Sir John Hawkwood 9
Revolt of the Tyrolese 264
Riding an Alligator 124
Saving the Eagle at Waterloo 308
Scene at Inkerman 380
Self-devotion of Pietro Micca, the Piedmontese Corporal 287
Shipwreck of Captain Barrett 243
Storming of St. Sebastian 269
Storming the Great Redoubt 328
Story of a Canvas Boat 29
Taking a Fort 92
The Black Watch at Alexandria 261
The Black Watch at Thoulouse 280
The Brave Soldier Servant 384
The Bridge of Lodi 259
The Fire in the Prairie – A Hunter’s Adventure 136
The Founder of the Heroic City 202
The Heroes of the Birkenhead 325
The Heroism of a Valet and Two Young Ladies at the Battle of Jemappes 258
The Last Hours of Sir Walter Raleigh 33
The Martyrs of Perambankam 63
The Modem Regulus 227
The Scots Greys and Enniskilliners in the Midst of the Russian Columns 340
The Swimmer 229
Tiger-Hunting – An Adventure 313
True Heroism – French and English 295
Victoria Cross Heroes 345
Water Drawing at Cawnpore 374
Wreck of the Swift 292