The History Of Henry Esmond Esq. (Volume I)

Excerpt from The History of Henry Esmond Esq. Vol. 1: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen AnneIn all bodily exercises he excelled and showed an extraordinary quickness and agility. Of fencing he was especially fond and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau not one of his Officers was superior to my Henry and he was not the equal of my poor George who had taken the King''s side in our lamentable but glorious War of Independence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.