Maurice Tiernay, Soldier of Fortune, by Charles James Lever
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Maurice Tiernay, Soldier of Fortune, by Charles James Lever
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Neither the tastes nor the temper of the age we live in are such as to induce any man to boast of his family nobility. We see too many preparations around us for laying down new foundations, to think it a suitable occasion for alluding to the ancient edifice. I will, therefore, confine myself to saying, that I am not to be regarded as a mere pretender because my name is not chronicled by Burke or Debrett. My great-grandfather, after whom I am called, served on the personal staff of King James at the Battle of the Boyne, and was one of the few who accompanied the monarch on his flight from the field, for which act of devotion he was created a peer of Ireland, by the style and title of Timmahoo—Lord Tiernay, of Timmahoo the family called it—and a very rich-sounding and pleasant designation has it always seemed to me.
Maurice Tiernay, Soldier of Fortune, by Charles James Lever- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .40" w x 8.50" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 174 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A lost treasure, a novel about fighting for Napoleon's Grande Armée By A. McGrath Maurice TiernayReading Charles Lever's Maurice Tiernay: Soldier of Fortune was a pleasant surprise. I had never heard of Lever before this but he was a contemporary of Charles Dickens and was a best selling author during his time but is mostly forgotten today. It's a shame because he writes so well.Maurice Tiernay is one of those rare pieces of fiction that tell the French side of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. We are inundated with stories from the English side, ironic considering the relatively small role the British played in those wars.Anyway, the title character is the son of a former member of Garde du Corps, one of the guards of Louis XVI. His father was guillotined and through many adventures, he is raised by a priest, escapes from the Bastille, joins the Revolutionary Army, ends up in the expedition to Ireland in 1798, then eventually the Siege of Genoa and other adventures in France, Bavaria and Austria. He even makes a foray to the fledgling United States.Like many Victorian novels it is long but it never drags and Tiernay grows as a character and a man, meeting many of the major personages of the day. He fights, falls in love, suffers, doubts himself. All the while he is torn between familial loyalty to royalty and loyalty to the new order of the Revolution and Napoleon. He manages to find a balance and rises high.There are some details modern readers of historical fiction might find a little missing, including a lack of detail in places, plus inaccuracies such as voltigeurs serving in the French Revolutionary armies, when they were a creation of the Napoleonic armies. They are minor detractions however and the joy of discovering a long lost writer who can write so well is well worth it—especially since his works are all in public domain and are free. A real treat! I intend to read some of his other works.
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