Young Carthaginian

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Historical Fiction

Authors: G. A. Henty In Year : 1887

Book Language: English

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Preface
A Camp In The Desert
A Night Attack
Carthage
A Popular Rising
The Conspiracy
A Campaign In Spain
A Wolf Hunt
A Plot Frustrated
The Siege Of Saguntum
Beset
The Passage Of The Rhone
Among The Passes
The Battle Of The Trebia
The Battle Of Lake Trasimene
A Mountain Tribe
In The Dungeons Of Carthage
The Escape
Cannae
In The Mines
The Sardinian Forest
The Gaulish Slave
The Lion

Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: "...certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly one for existence on the part of Carthage, that Hannibal was a great and skilful general, that he defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome, and that the Romans behaved with bad faith and great cruelty at the capture of Carthage, represents, I think, pretty nearly the sum total of our knowledge. " (from the preface)