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General Bagnall

General Sir William Armstrong
Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in India

BRITISH NAVY

Admiral Spencer

Lieutenant Archibald Fowler
Lieutenant HMS
Defender

BELGIUM

Ambassador Pierce
American Ambassador to Belgium

Leopold
King of Belgium

Baron Surlet de Chokier
Belgian Foreign Minister

IRELAND

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
President of the Republic of Ireland

Isaac Butt
Vice-President of the Republic of Ireland

Ambassador O'Brin
Irish Ambassador to the United States of America

Thomas McGrath
Irish Intern in Birmingham

Patrick McDermott
Irish Intern in Birmingham

RUSSIA

Admiral Paul S. Makhimov
Admiral Russian Navy

Count Alexander Igoreivich Korzhenevski
Captain of the
Aurora

Lieutenant Simenov
First Engineer of
Aurora

SCOTLAND

General McGregor
Commander in Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in Scotland

Mr. MacLaren
of the Highland Council

Robert Dalglish
Chairman of the National Party of Scotland

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

BOOK ONE

A JOURNEY ABROAD

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, JUNE 1865

AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION!

THE ULTIMATUM

A VOYAGE FRAUGHT WITH DANGER

INTO THE LION'S LAIR

AN OUTRAGEOUS ACT

TEMPTING FATE

IRELAND ENRAGED

A SECRET REVEALED

IN THE ENEMY'S HEARTLAND

TRAPPED!

A CONVOY IN DANGER

A DISASTROUS ENCOUNTER

COMMAND DECISION

BOOK TWO

THE WINDS OF WAR

SEAGOING THUNDER

SHADOWS OF WAR

LET BATTLE BEGIN

THE SWORD IS DRAWN

A CLASH IN PARLIAMENT

STRIKING A MIGHTY BLOW

IN BATTLE DRAWN

BUCKINGHAM PALACE ATTACKED

A DARING ESCAPE

A MONARCH'S PLIGHT

BOOK THREE

DAWN OF A NEW AGE

A COUNTRY DIVIDED

A CONSTITUTIONAL CONGRESS

THUNDER BEYOND THE HORIZON

WAITING FOR DESTINY

DAWN OF A NEW DAY

SUMMER—1865

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