Mayne Reid: A Memoir of his Life
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About This Book
To most of the world, Captain Mayne Reid is known only as a writer of thrilling romances and works on natural history. It will appear in these pages that he was also distinguished as a man of action and a soldier, and the record of his many gallant deeds should still further endear him to the hearts of his readers. He was born in the north of Ireland, in April, 1818, at Ballyroney, county Down, the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Mayne Reid, Presbyterian minister, a man of great learning and ability. His mother was the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Rutherford, a descendant of the "hot and ...
Chapters (35)
- Elizabeth Reid "Mayne Reid" "A Memoir of his Life"
- Chapter One.
- Early Life. Emigration to America. Edgar Allan Poe.
- Chapter Two.
- The Mexican War.
- Chapter Three.
- Fighting in Mexico.
- Chapter Four.
- The Assault on Chapultepec.
- Chapter Five.
- He is Mourned as Dead.
- Chapter Six.
- Mayne Reid Remains in Mexico. Contemporary Notices in the United States.
- Chapter Seven.
- Who was First into Chapultepec?
- Chapter Eight.
- He Seeks to Aid the Revolutionary Agitations in Europe.
- Chapter Nine.
- His First Romances.
- Chapter Ten.
- Kossuth. “The Times.”
- Chapter Eleven.
- “The Captain and his Child Wife.”
- Chapter Twelve.
- Bricks and Mortar.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- New York.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Closing Scenes.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Donn Piatt’s Reminiscence. Press Notices.
- Appendix.
- “The Land of Innisfail,” by Mayne Reid.
- A Southern Sunset, from “La Cubana,” by Mayne Reid.
- The End.
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