James Dugan
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
THE time is 1797. The armies of the French Revolution have swept over Europe, leaving Britain's eight million people to stand alone against populations totaling more than fifty million. On the Continent an enormous invasion force is massing; while in England the country is nearly bankrupt and popular discontent is so widespread that the monarchy itself is in danger and the possibility of a British Republic looms.
At the height of the crisis, the...