REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Published, November, 1906 CONTENTS i PACK MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER i II BARON JAMES HARDEN-HICKEY ..... 32 III WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL ..... 75 IV CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON MCGIFFIN . . . .120 V GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, THE KING OF THE FILIBUSTERS ........ 145 VI MAJOR BURNHAM, CHIEF OF SCOUTS . . .191 ILLUSTRATIONS BURNHAM AND COMMISSIONER ARMSTRONG ESCAPING AFTER ...
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REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Published, November, 1906 CONTENTS i PACK MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER i II BARON JAMES HARDEN-HICKEY ..... 32 III WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL ..... 75 IV CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON MCGIFFIN . . . .120 V GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, THE KING OF THE FILIBUSTERS ........ 145 VI MAJOR BURNHAM, CHIEF OF SCOUTS . . .191 ILLUSTRATIONS BURNHAM AND COMMISSIONER ARMSTRONG ESCAPING AFTER SHOOTING THE HIGH PRIEST UNLIMO Frontispiece FACING PAGE MACIVER IN THE UNIFORM OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE 16 BARON HARDEN-HICKEY, KING JAMES I OF TRINIDAD 72 WINSTON CHURCHILL AS WAR CORRESPON DENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE 98 WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL, BRITISH UNDERSECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES Il8 CAPTAIN MCGIFFIN ON GRADUATION FROM THE NAVAL ACADEMY AT TWENTY-THREE 128 CAPTAIN MCGIFFIN IN HOSPITAL AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE YALU SHOWING DAMAGE TO CLOTHES DUE TO CONCUSSION . . 142 ROUTES OF WALKERS THREE FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITIONS 188 MAJOR F. R. BURNHAM TAKEN ON THE DAY THE KING DECORATED HIM WITH THE D. S. 0 228 REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER ANY sunny afternoon, on Fifth Avenue, or at night in the table dhote res taurants of University Place, you may meet the soldier of fortune who of all his brothers in arms now living is the most remarkable. You may have noticed him a stiffly erect, dis tinguished-looking man, with gray hair, an imperial of the fashion of Louis Napoleon, fierce blue eyes and across his forehead a sabre cut. This is Henry Ronald Douglas Maclver, for some time in India anensign in the Sepoy mutiny in Italy, lieutenant under Garibaldi in Spain, captain under Don Carlos in our Civil War, major in the Confederate army in Mexico, lieutenant-colonel under the Em REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE peror Maximilian colonel under Napoleon III, inspector of cavalry for the Khedive of Egypt, and chief of cavalry and general of brigade of the army of King Milan of Servia. These are only a few of his military titles. In .1884 was published a book giving the story of his life up to that year. It was called Un der Fourteen Flags If to-day General Mac-Iver were to reprint the book, it would be Called Under Eighteen Flags. Maclver was born on Christmas Day, 1841, at sea, a league off the shore of Virginia. His mother was Miss Anna Douglas of that State Ronald Maclver, his father, was a Scot, a Ross-shire gentleman, a younger son of the chief of the Clan Maclver. Until he was ten years old young Maclver played in Virginia at the home of his father. Then, in order that he might be educated, he was shipped to Edinburgh to an uncle, General Donald Graham. After five years his uncle obtained for him a commission as ensign in the Honourable East India Company, and at sixteen, when other boys are preparing for college, Mac lver was in the Indian Mutiny, fighting, not for a flag, nor a country, but as one fights a
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Good. No Jacket. Octavo. Includes biographies of Maj. -Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver, Baron James Harden-Hickey, Winston Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffin, Gen. William Walker, and Major Burnham. X-lib, rebound in library boards.
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Burgundy boards with gold lettering, no DJ, wear and discolorations to cover, cackled page edges, some pages have discolorations from age, text is clean with no apparent markings, illustrated frontispiece and plates, tissue with frontispiece, book is in good condition.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and colophon, light edgewear. 228 uncut pages, clean and tight with 8 b/w photos throughout & top ends in gold gilt.
