A Jacobite Exile
A Jacobite Exile: An Englishman in the Service of Charles XII. of Sweden
By: G. A. Henty (1893)
Sir Marmaduke Carstairs, a Jacobite, is the victim of a conspiracy, and he is denounced as a plotter against the life of King William. He flies to Sweden, accompanied by his son Charlie. This youth joins the foreign legion under Charles XII., and takes a distinguished part in several famous campaigns against the Russians and Poles.
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