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Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower

by G.A. Henty

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Brilliant story of the stirring times of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, when the Scotch, under Douglas, and the Welsh, under Owen Glendower, were attacking the English. The hero of the book lived near the Scotch border, and saw many a hard fight there. Entering the service of Lord Percy, he was sent to Wales, where he was knighted, and where he was captured. Being released, he returned home, and shared in the fatal battle of Shrewsbury.

When Oswald Forster is taken into Henry Percy’s household as a squire, his efficiency and discretion as a message-bearer, as well as his newly-gained ability to read and write, gain him Hotspur’s confidence, and he becomes a go-between for several very sensitive communications between the Percys and their allies. He takes part in a raid against Glendower, rescues his girl cousins, Jessie and Janet, from captivity by the Bairds, is knighted by King Henry for his loyal service, is captured by Glendower—with surprising consequences—and finally, participates in the fateful battle at Shrewsbury in which Hotspur takes his forces against the king’s army.

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Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower

Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 344
Publisher: Preston Speed
ISBN: 1-931587-213