The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1870]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (51)
- ALL WERE DEAD, AS IT WERE ONE LONG CEMETERY.
- All were dead, as it were one long cemetery . . . . . Frontispiece "Be so good as to come in, Mr. Sergeant" I shuddered in my very soul and my hair bristled Winter took him by the collar, and said: "I have you now!" The sortie from the Tile-kiln
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- THE BLOCKADE:
- AN EPISODE OF
- THE END OF THE EMPIRE
- I
- FATHER MOSES AND HIS FAMILY
- II
- FATHER MOSES'S SPECULATION
- III
- A CIRCUMCISION FEAST
- IV
- FATHER MOSES COMPELLED TO BEAR ARMS
- V
- FATHER MOSES RECEIVES WELCOME NEWS
- VI
- A DISAGREEABLE GUEST
- "BE SO GOOD AS TO COME IN, MR. SERGEANT."
- VII
- SERGEANT TRUBERT IN A NEW LIGHT
- VIII
- FATHER MOSES'S FIRST ENCOUNTER
- IX
- APPROACH OF THE ENEMY
- X
- AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COSSACKS
- I SHUDDERED IN MY VERY SOUL AND MY HAIR BRISTLED.
- XI
- FATHER MOSES RETURNS IN TRIUMPH
- XII
- THE ENEMY REPULSED
- XIII
- A DESERTER CAPTURED
- WINTER TOOK HIM BY THE COLLAR, AND SAID: "I HAVE YOU NOW!"
- XIV
- BURGUET'S VISIT TO THE DESERTER
- XV
- TRIAL OF THE DESERTER
- XVI
- A SORTIE OF THE GARRISON
- THE SORTIE FROM THE LIME-KILN.
- XVII
- FAMINE AND FEVER
- XVIII
- DEATH OF LITTLE DAVID
- XIX
- THE PASSOVER
- XX
- PEACE
- XXI
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