With Wolfe in Canada the Winning of a Continent - Henty, G. A.
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G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his love of story telling began in his childhood when his family told tales after dinner. The British and French were struggling for power in North America. When Quebec fell the English would become supreme. The Anglo-Saxon race would be predominant in the New World. English commerce. Language, and literature would spread around the world. In With Wolfe in Canada James Walsham leaves England as a young man in 1755 and finds himself in the French and…mehr

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G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his love of story telling began in his childhood when his family told tales after dinner. The British and French were struggling for power in North America. When Quebec fell the English would become supreme. The Anglo-Saxon race would be predominant in the New World. English commerce. Language, and literature would spread around the world. In With Wolfe in Canada James Walsham leaves England as a young man in 1755 and finds himself in the French and Indian War. Like most of Henty's novels this is a true adventure novel filled with historical detail.
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English author and war correspondent George Alfred Henty lived from 8 December 1832 to 16 November 1902. He is most well-known for his historical fiction and adventure books, including The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883), and in Freedom's Cause (1883). (1885). He was a British journalist who served as G. A. Henty's war correspondent. He was raised in Cambridge and finished his education there at Gonville and Caius College. He continued to cover important wars that followed, such as the Italian and Austro-Italian Wars. He wrote 122 books, most of which were geared toward young readers. He also wrote non-fiction, adult fiction, and short tales. In Henty's stories, the main character is a boy or young man who is going through a challenging situation. His characters are consistently low-key, astute, courageous, truthful, and resourceful with a lot of "pluck." The date was put at the bottom of the title page of each of Henty's 122 historical fiction works in their first printings.