Duty and Duplicity Book 5 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 21 The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Outside Cadiz, Spain. September 1823 Brigadier General Marcel Defarge greeted me with his usual ferocious scowl when I presented myself at his opulent headquarters, a hacienda outside the village of Port Royal, on the mainland across the lagoon from the besieged city of Cadiz. “I have some news which will delight you, English.” He waved a sheet of paper in his hand. Defarge always referred to me in private as ‘English’. I was not annoyed by the appellation, but hoped one day he would...