Adventures Of Leftenant Rundel

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Leftenant Benjamin Rundel is faced with the battle for St Elmo Castle which is thought to be impregnable the surrender of Capua a trying leftenants exam for his friend Tom Murphy & the surrender of all of Roma to Captain Troubridge for a turn of the cards. Then its off to the Quiberon Bay disaster & success at Killala Bay against the French. The Admiralty sends he & his friend Tom Murphy to Panama to capture a pack train loaded with gold headed for Spain. After much confusion they get the gold but end up with the mother ship aground with the gold aboard & a boatload of starving cannibals on shore to harry them. Along the way he is instructed to capture the wife & sister of a noble of the Codrington family & has to decide how to cut out two older females from a Spanish captains protection. Then he returns to Barbados to quench the fires of a fire ship & heads out to find the perpetrator only to wind up in a plot by an island plantation owner to ruin all of the local planters so he can purchase their lands cheaply. Finally as he heads for safety his ship is captured by the French. But he plays turnabout & takes a much larger French ship on his way to port. There is never a dull moment in the life of this most able young leftenant.