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G. A. Henty, the Glossary

Index G. A. Henty

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 82 relations: A Final Reckoning, Adventure fiction, American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, Art Robinson, Austro-Prussian War, Aviation, Basil Dickey, Billy Boyd (actor), Blackie and Son, Boers, British Empire, British expedition to Abyssinia, Brompton Cemetery, Cambridge, Captain (armed forces), Carlism, Confederate States of America, Crimea, Crimean War, Downton Abbey, Ed Rendell, Edmund Cobb, Elliott & Fry, Entomology, Franco-Prussian War, Frank Clark (actor), Frederick Sadleir Brereton, French Revolution, Fugitive slaves in the United States, George Morgan (screenwriter), Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Guy Arnold, Haiti, Harper (publisher), Henry Everett McNeil, Herbert Strang, Historical fiction, Homeschooling, Humphrey Carpenter, In the Reign of Terror, Internet Archive, Jay Wilsey, Jews, Joanne Froggatt, Louise Lorraine, Loyalist (American Revolution), Mark McKinnon, Michigan Digitization Project, ... Expand index (32 more) »

  2. Military personnel from Cambridge
  3. People from Trumpington
  4. People of the Abyssinian War

A Final Reckoning

A Final Reckoning is a 1928 American silent Western film serial directed by Ray Taylor, set in colonial Australia.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Art Robinson

Arthur Brouhard Robinson (born March 24, 1942) is an American biochemist, conservative activist, prominent climate change denier, and politician serving as Oregon State Senator from the 2nd District since 2021.

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Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"), Deutscher Bruderkrieg ("German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation.

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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Basil Dickey

Basil Dickey (November 23, 1880 – June 17, 1958) was an American screenwriter.

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Billy Boyd (actor)

William Nathan Boyd (born 28 August 1968), professionally known as Billy Boyd, is a Scottish actor and musician.

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Blackie and Son

Blackie & Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England, from 1809 to 1991.

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Boers

Boers (Boere are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled Dutch Cape Colony, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British expedition to Abyssinia

The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire (also known at the time as Abyssinia).

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Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is since 1852 the first (and only) London cemetery to be Crown property, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. G. A. Henty and Brompton Cemetery are Burials at Brompton Cemetery.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Carlism

Carlism (Karlismo; Carlisme) is a Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty, one descended from Don Carlos, Count of Molina (1788–1855), on the Spanish throne.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes.

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Ed Rendell

Edward Gene Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, politician, and author who served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011.

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Edmund Cobb

Edmund Fessenden Cobb (June 23, 1892 – August 15, 1974) was an American actor who appeared in more than 620 films between 1912 and 1966.

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Elliott & Fry

Elliott & Fry was a Victorian photography studio founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Frank Clark (actor)

Frank Clark (December 22, 1857 – April 10, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era.

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Frederick Sadleir Brereton

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sadleir Brereton, CBE (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) who often wrote under the name Captain Brereton, was a British Army medical officer and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.

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Fugitive slaves in the United States

In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery.

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George Morgan (screenwriter)

George Morgan (1854 – January 8, 1936) was an American male actor and screenwriter.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (In his native Ligurian language, he is known as Gioxeppe Gaibado. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as Jousé or Josep. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Guy Arnold

Guy Arnold (6 May 1932 – 4 January 2020) was a British explorer, travel writer, political writer and specialist in north-south relations, who wrote mainly in the areas of African history, politics, and international affairs.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Henry Everett McNeil

Henry Everett McNeil (25 September 1862 – 14 December 1929) was a leading children's author of the 1910s and 1920s, and was an original and core member of the Kalem Club circle around the writer H.P. Lovecraft.

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Herbert Strang

Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866–1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867–1947).

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.

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Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.

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In the Reign of Terror

In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy is a novel by G. A. Henty published in 1888.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jay Wilsey

Jay Wilsey (February 6, 1896 – October 25, 1961) was an American film actor (born Wilbert Jay Wilsey).

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joanne Froggatt

Joanne Froggatt (born 23 August 1980) is a British actress.

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Louise Lorraine

Louise Lorraine (born Louise Escovar; October 1, 1904 – February 2, 1981) was an American actress.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Mark McKinnon

Mark David McKinnon (born May 5, 1955) is an American political advisor, reform advocate, media columnist, and television producer.

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Michigan Digitization Project

The Michigan Digitization Project is a project in partnership with Google Books to digitize the entire print collection of the University of Michigan Library.

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Morning Advertiser

Morning Advertiser is one of the oldest news publications in the world, beginning as a newspaper in 1794 and being published in hard copy until 2020.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Oregon State Senate

The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Palestine (region)

The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.

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Percy F. Westerman

Percy Francis Westerman (1876 – 22 February 1959) was an English author of children's literature, with a prolific output.

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Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage.

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Rachel Maddow

Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator.

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Ray Taylor (director)

Raymond Edgar Taylor (1 December 1888 – 15 February 1952) was an American film director.

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Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet (4 September 1843 – 26 January 1911) was an English Liberal and Radical politician.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Suez Canal

The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).

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The Athenaeum (British magazine)

The Athenæum was a British literary magazine published in London, England, from 1828 to 1921.

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The Boy's Own Paper

The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.

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The Cat of Bubastes

The Cat of Bubastes, A Tale of Ancient Egypt is an 1889 historical novel for young people by British author G.A. Henty.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands.

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Trumpington

Trumpington is a village to the south of Cambridge, in the Cambridge district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Union (American Civil War)

The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the states that remained loyal to the United States after eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War.

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Union Jack (magazine)

The Union Jack was a British story paper for children of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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War correspondent

A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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Weymouth Harbour, Dorset

Weymouth Harbour (or the Old Harbour) is a harbour at the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, southern England.

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Weymouth, Dorset

Weymouth is a sea-side town and civil parish in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, on the English Channel coast of England.

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William Wallace

Sir William Wallace (Uilleam Uallas,; Norman French: William le Waleys; 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.

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With Kitchener in the Soudan

With Kitchener in the Soudan; A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by British author G. A. Henty is an adventure novel set during the British military expedition under Lord Kitchener and the subsequent destruction of the Mahdi's followers during the Mahdist War (1881–1899).

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With Lee in Virginia

With Lee in Virginia, A Story of the American Civil War (1890) is a book by British author G.A. Henty.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

Military personnel from Cambridge

People from Trumpington

People of the Abyssinian War

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._A._Henty

Also known as Beric the Briton, Beric the Briton, A Story of the Roman Invasion, Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion, Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden, G A Henty, G.A. Henty, GA Henty, George Alfred Henty, George Henty, The Dragon and the Raven, or The Days of King Alfred, The Lost Heir, The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsular War, To Herat and Cabul, A Story of the First Afghan War, To Herat and Kabul.

, Minority group, Morning Advertiser, Napoleonic Wars, Nationalism, Oregon State Senate, Ottoman Empire, Palestine (region), Percy F. Westerman, Punic Wars, Rachel Maddow, Ray Taylor (director), Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet, Stereotype, Strike action, Suez Canal, The Athenaeum (British magazine), The Boy's Own Paper, The Cat of Bubastes, The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Times, Thomas Carlyle, Trumpington, Union (American Civil War), Union Jack (magazine), War correspondent, Westminster School, Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, Weymouth, Dorset, William Wallace, With Kitchener in the Soudan, With Lee in Virginia, World War I.