The Phantom Army

Excerpt from The Phantom Army: Being the Story of a Man and a Mystery I would take this opportunity of saying that The Phantom Army is an attempt to depict the emprise of a man who is a victim of the Napoleonic idea. In this endeavour, I have sought to show what might be achieved by a regiment of determined men harboured by a lawless province, befriended by a people ripe for revolution, and so organized that in every country of Europe a refuge from the law and the police is open to them. That a soldier accustomed to the reckless liberty of the hills, a soldier who believes that, as Napoleon did, so may others do, should achieve something of his ambition, is, I hope, no improbable assumption. That he would achieve much is beyond all bounds of military probability. It has been my endeavour in The Phantom Army to show how far such a man might hope to go, and what would be the causes which ultimately would contribute to his downfall. 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.


Genre: Literary Fiction