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Richard Harding Davis examines the incredible careers and lives of men with military experiences, including Winston Spencer Churchill, General William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey and General MacIver. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century.

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ANY sunny afternoon, on Fifth Avenue, or at night in the table d'hote restaurants 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, distinguished-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 MacIver, for some time in India an ensign 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 Emperor 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 "Under Fourteen Flags." If to-day General MacIver were to reprint the book, it would be called "Under Eighteen Flags."

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"Six noted heroes of adventure." -The Dial In his great novel, 'Soldiers of Fortune,' Mr. Davis described the ideal adventurer. Here he tells even more brilliantly the true and extraordinary histories of such men as General William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General Maciver, Winston Spencer Churchill, and Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen. "The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably interesting....Not in every instance does Mr. Richard Harding Davis write from intimate personal knowledge of his hero; but he always seems so to have caught the spirit of the man he is describing....The chapter on Mr. Churchill, soldier, war correspondent, lecturer, author, and politician, gains peculiar freshness and actuality from the writer's near acquaintance with and admiration for his bold and talented young hero. But the last chapter of all, that on Major Burnham, rivals it as an interest-awakener." -The Dial "Mr. Davis sketches the 'kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.'" -Book Review Digest "Written with the author's usual spirit and dash." -A. L. A. Booklist "A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit." -Atheneum "The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis's ideal soldier of fortune." -Literary Digest "Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote, episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical events in which these men played important, but, for the most part, thankless roles." -The New York Times "The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are written will certainly attract young readers." -Outlook "Undeniably entertaining....Throws a light on the sources of some of its author's best works of fiction." -The Bookman Contents MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER BARON JAMES HARDEN-HICKEY WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON McGIFFIN GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, MAJOR BURNHAM, CHIEF OF SCOUTS

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