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A knight of the white cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes / by G.A. Henty ; illustrated by Ralph Peacock. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mill Hall, Pennsylvania : Preston/Speed Publications, (c)1999.Description: 408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781887159241
  • 9781887159258
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ7.P356.K554 1999
  • PZ7
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Contents:
II. The Battlee of Tewekesbury -- III. The grand master's page -- IV. A professed knight -- V. Scourges of the sea -- Virgin Islands Knighted -- Virgin IslandsI. A first command -- Virgin IslandsII. An evening at Rhodes -- IX. With the galley-slaves -- X. A plot discovered -- XI. In command of a galley -- XII. The boy-galley -- XIII. The first prizes -- XIV. The corsair fleet -- XV. A splendid exploit -- XVI. Festivities -- XVII. Captured -- XVIII. A kind master -- XIX. Escape -- XX. Beleaguered -- XXI. The fort of St. Nicholas -- XXII. The struggle at the beach -- XXIII. The reward of valour.
Subject: Young Gervaise Tresham leaves England and the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses to become a Knight of St. John. Starting as a page of the Grand Master, Gervaise quickly attains knighthood and defends Europe and Christendom against the anarchy of piracy in the Mediterranean and the expansion of the Turkish empire. Sir Tresham is there to defend the fortress at Rhodes during the first siege of that city by Soleiman.
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Originally published: London : Blackie and Son, 1895.

I. The king-maker -- II. The Battlee of Tewekesbury -- III. The grand master's page -- IV. A professed knight -- V. Scourges of the sea -- Virgin Islands Knighted -- Virgin IslandsI. A first command -- Virgin IslandsII. An evening at Rhodes -- IX. With the galley-slaves -- X. A plot discovered -- XI. In command of a galley -- XII. The boy-galley -- XIII. The first prizes -- XIV. The corsair fleet -- XV. A splendid exploit -- XVI. Festivities -- XVII. Captured -- XVIII. A kind master -- XIX. Escape -- XX. Beleaguered -- XXI. The fort of St. Nicholas -- XXII. The struggle at the beach -- XXIII. The reward of valour.

Young Gervaise Tresham leaves England and the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses to become a Knight of St. John. Starting as a page of the Grand Master, Gervaise quickly attains knighthood and defends Europe and Christendom against the anarchy of piracy in the Mediterranean and the expansion of the Turkish empire. Sir Tresham is there to defend the fortress at Rhodes during the first siege of that city by Soleiman.

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