The complete online text of Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. Henty.

When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...

G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...

Byline: Jonathan Brocklebank IT was the last battle ever fought on Scottish soil - and one of themost one - sided. But now, more than 260 years after the slaughter at Culloden, it seems that noone wants to be associated with...

CULLODEN... Doesn't sound entirely welcoming, does it? It was at Culloden that, in April 1746, two headstrong young men faced each other and, in a vicious day's fighting, the 25-year-old William Augus-tus, Duke of Cumberland, slaughtered most of 26-year-old Bonnie Prince Charlie's ragtag army....