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Excerpt from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, the interest of the story centres in the heroism of a woman, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage fully equal to that necessary for those who take part in active warfare. Boys are rather apt to think, mistakenly, that their sex has a monopoly of courage, but I believe that in moments of great peril women are to the full as brave and as collected as men. Indeed, my own somewhat extensive experience leads me to go even farther, and to assert that among a civil population, untrained to arms, the average woman is cooler and more courageous than the average man. Women are nervous about little matters; they may be frightened at a mouse or at a spider; but in the presence of real danger, when shells are bursting in the streets, and rifle bullets flying thickly, I have seen them standing knitting at their doors and talking to their friends across the street when not a single man was to be seen. There is no greater mistake than to think women cowards because they are sometimes nervous over trifles. Were it necessary, innumerable cases could be quoted from history to prove that women can, upon occasion, fight as courageously as men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Full title: One of the 28th
• Subtitle: A Tale of Waterloo (Classic Reprint)
• Author: G. A. Henty
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374
• EAN: 9781330161579
• ISBN: 9781330161579
• ID: 09638735
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 2015

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