The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure

The Road to Paris is written by Robert Neilson Stephens (July 22 1867 - January 20 1906) an American novelist and playwright.. Excerpt:In the Jacobite army that followed Prince Charlie and shared defeat with him at Culloden in 1746 were some who escaped hanging at Carlisle or elsewhere by fleeing to Scottish ports and obtaining passage over the water. A few like the Young Chevalier himself fled to the continent of Europe; but some crossed the ocean and made new lives for themselves in Virginia Pennsylvania and other provinces. Two of these refugees tarrying not in the thickly settled strip of country along the Atlantic coast but pushing at once to the backwoods of Pennsylvania were Hugh Mercer the young surgeon destined to die gloriously as an American general thirty years later and Alexander Wetheral one of the few Englishmen who had rallied to the Stuart standard at its last unfurling