In the Track of the Troops

In the Track of the Troops

R. M. Ballantyne, scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books (1825-1894)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- A Tale of Modern War

-03- Is Still More Explosive than the First

-04- An Interview with Men in Power

-05- A Day with the Torpedoes

-06- Terrible Torpedo Tales, Followed By Overturned Plans

-07- Turk and Bulgarian—A Wrestling Match and a Dispute

-08- The Black Clouds Gather

-09- Treats of Torpedoes

-10- In which Lancey is Tried

-11- Involves Lancey in Great Perplexities, which Culminate in a Vast Surprise

-12- Refers to two Important Letters, and a Secret Mission

-13- My First Experience of Actual War, and my Thoughts Thereon

-14- Shews what Sometimes Happens in the Track of Troops

-15- Tells More of what Occasionally Happens in the Track of Troops

-16- Simtova

-17- Lancey gets Embroiled in Troubles

-18- In which some Desperate Enterprises are Undertaken

-19- Treats of one of our Great Ironclads

-20- Describes a Stirring Fight

-21- Treats of War and some of its “Glorious” Results

-22- More of the Results of War

-23- The Fall of Plevna

-24- Woe to the Auburn Hair

-25- Farewell to Sanda Pasha

-26- Describes a Wreck, and the Triumph of Love

-27- Some More of War’s Consequences