Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Special Offer | $0.00

Join Today And Start a 30-Day Free Trial and Get Exclusive Member Benefits to Access Millions Books for Free!

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line

Richard Marman
4.9/5 (33374 ratings)
Description:While trolling through the family’s past, Zach and Angela uncover the story of how the first McAlisters came to Australia.It all started in the quite Dorset town of Cerne Abbas during the Napoleonic Wars.Vicar’s daughter, Christina Proud marries smithy, and sometime smuggler, Will Jenkins, who soon falls foul of the law. Will is given a choice — take the King’s shilling or the noose. So, Will joins the army and Christina’s begins her odyssey as a camp follower.The battalion is quickly deployed to Spain to join General Arthur Wellesley’s Peninsula Army, fighting against the French. Threatened by platoon Sergeant Jack Newell and with her husband powerless to help, Christina is befriended by Lieutenant Jonathan McAlister who offers her projection.With the French Army massing at Talavera, the battalion marches into battle. Under the blistering Spanish sun, Christina must now fight for her life and those she loves. Beset on all sides by bandits, partisans, deserters, French cavalry and the squalor of a military campaign gone wrong. Living by her wits and managing to get by with broken Spanish. she tries to make her escape to a safe haven and hopefully a ship back to Blighty. But does she make it?Download and read Christina's account of her ghastly experiences in a foreign land.=================KEYWORDS/TAGS: McAlister’s Lady, Christina, Jonathan, Will, French, Mary, Newell, Grant, Lady, battalion, Lightfoot, officers, Sergeant, women, Rodney, Major, Toff, Dandy-Jim, Jamieson, Jenkins, ship, wound, Proud, Weymouth, British, French, Annabelle, family, Reverend, declare, orders, musket, wives, river, Bill, Sea-Snake, Chesil Bay, love, Wellesley’s, infantry, Sheriff, Dorset, Ball, East, smuggle, East Indiaman, Portland Bill, General, Spanish, Portuguese, Lisbon, cargo, Lord, ammunition, Lieutenant, Battalion, cargo landers, column of soldiers, lighthouse, barracks, Rosemary, Nazario, Fleming, Monroe, troops, pistol, major, wreck, Cerne Abbas, John, baby, born, birth, contraband, partisans, abandoned, protest, Talavera, Stephen, Jesenia, Colonel, carts, west, casualties, Frenchmen, fusiliers, infection, puss, daughter, Portugal, redcoats, surgeon, Wally, Boyle, enemy, South, Army, treacherous, commission, survivors, ridgeline, Caldecott, musketry, froggies, frogs, pinnaces, sergeant, brigade, weapons, Estela, Grogan, London, Yeovil, bodies, Harold, Spain, Jack, Dorchester, Osmington, Colquhoun, venture, Yeomanry, Marshall, cavalry, England, Australia, powder, Court, trial, Sentence, Cells, Guard, Judge, Wales, Port, camp-follower, camp follower,We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line. To get started finding McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Release
ISBN
882832192X

McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line

Richard Marman
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: While trolling through the family’s past, Zach and Angela uncover the story of how the first McAlisters came to Australia.It all started in the quite Dorset town of Cerne Abbas during the Napoleonic Wars.Vicar’s daughter, Christina Proud marries smithy, and sometime smuggler, Will Jenkins, who soon falls foul of the law. Will is given a choice — take the King’s shilling or the noose. So, Will joins the army and Christina’s begins her odyssey as a camp follower.The battalion is quickly deployed to Spain to join General Arthur Wellesley’s Peninsula Army, fighting against the French. Threatened by platoon Sergeant Jack Newell and with her husband powerless to help, Christina is befriended by Lieutenant Jonathan McAlister who offers her projection.With the French Army massing at Talavera, the battalion marches into battle. Under the blistering Spanish sun, Christina must now fight for her life and those she loves. Beset on all sides by bandits, partisans, deserters, French cavalry and the squalor of a military campaign gone wrong. Living by her wits and managing to get by with broken Spanish. she tries to make her escape to a safe haven and hopefully a ship back to Blighty. But does she make it?Download and read Christina's account of her ghastly experiences in a foreign land.=================KEYWORDS/TAGS: McAlister’s Lady, Christina, Jonathan, Will, French, Mary, Newell, Grant, Lady, battalion, Lightfoot, officers, Sergeant, women, Rodney, Major, Toff, Dandy-Jim, Jamieson, Jenkins, ship, wound, Proud, Weymouth, British, French, Annabelle, family, Reverend, declare, orders, musket, wives, river, Bill, Sea-Snake, Chesil Bay, love, Wellesley’s, infantry, Sheriff, Dorset, Ball, East, smuggle, East Indiaman, Portland Bill, General, Spanish, Portuguese, Lisbon, cargo, Lord, ammunition, Lieutenant, Battalion, cargo landers, column of soldiers, lighthouse, barracks, Rosemary, Nazario, Fleming, Monroe, troops, pistol, major, wreck, Cerne Abbas, John, baby, born, birth, contraband, partisans, abandoned, protest, Talavera, Stephen, Jesenia, Colonel, carts, west, casualties, Frenchmen, fusiliers, infection, puss, daughter, Portugal, redcoats, surgeon, Wally, Boyle, enemy, South, Army, treacherous, commission, survivors, ridgeline, Caldecott, musketry, froggies, frogs, pinnaces, sergeant, brigade, weapons, Estela, Grogan, London, Yeovil, bodies, Harold, Spain, Jack, Dorchester, Osmington, Colquhoun, venture, Yeomanry, Marshall, cavalry, England, Australia, powder, Court, trial, Sentence, Cells, Guard, Judge, Wales, Port, camp-follower, camp follower,We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line. To get started finding McAlister's Lady- The Prequel to the McAlister Line, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Release
ISBN
882832192X
loader