A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy
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Chapters (43)
- Harry Collingwood "A Middy of the King"
- Chapter One.
- H.M.S. Europa.
- Chapter Two.
- The Privateer and her Prize.
- Chapter Three.
- A Cutting-out Expedition.
- Chapter Four.
- The French 50-Gun Ship.
- Chapter Five.
- The Europa has a narrow Escape.
- Chapter Six.
- We capture a Dutch Frigate.
- Chapter Seven.
- Westward Ho!
- Chapter Eight.
- The Audacieuse Privateer.
- Chapter Nine.
- The Pirate Brigantine.
- Chapter Ten.
- Ashore—Invalided.
- Chapter Eleven.
- H.M.S. Wasp.
- Chapter Twelve.
- What the Gunner saw.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- The Wasp Fights the Pirate Schooner.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- The End of the Wasp.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- My Voyage on the Hatch.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- A Night Alarm.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- The Attack on Bella Vista.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Captured by the Negro Outlaws.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- In the Pirate’s Stronghold.
- Chapter Twenty.
- The Beginning of the End.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- The Extermination of the Pirates.
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