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* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.
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In Flashman and the Tiger, he mentions that one of his grandchildren has black hair and eyes, resembling him in his younger years.
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* Harry Paget Flashman witnesses the events of this story in the novel " Flashman and the Tiger " by George MacDonald Fraser.
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* Flashman and the Tiger, a 1999 novel by George MacDonald Fraser where Harry Flashman participates in the battle.
* " The Tranby Croft card scandal " is one of the three stories in Flashman and the Tiger.
Moran appears in the Flashman novella Flashman and the Tiger, and as a boy in the novel Flash for Freedom !, by George MacDonald Fraser.
) In Flashman and the Tiger, during the battle of Rorke's Drift, Moran demonstrates amazing speed and unearthly accuracy with a revolver.
Blowitz appears as a character in the novella " The Road to Charing Cross " in Flashman and the Tiger ( 1999 ) by George MacDonald Fraser.
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* Frederick Douglass appears in Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, by George MacDonald Fraser.
* The Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser are supposedly edited versions of the title character's memoirs.
Kit Carson also appears in Flashman and the Redskins ( 1982 ) by George MacDonald Fraser.
* Montez also appears in Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, where she has a brief affair with Harry Flashman.
Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).
In Flashman, Flashman says that the family fortune was made by his great-grandfather, Jack Flashman, in America trading in rum, slaves and " piracy too, I shouldn't wonder.
( Allusions in Flash For Freedom and Flashman and the Redskins indicate that he did indeed fight on both sides in the war, but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by Abraham Lincoln.
Flashman survived the ensuing debacle by a mixture of sheer luck and unstinting cowardice.
Of course, Flashman arrived at the Fort by accident, collapsed in terror rather than fight, was forced to stand and show fight by his subordinate, and was ' rumbled ' for a complete coward.
He was not above forcing himself on a partner by blackmail ( e. g. the Russian countess in Flashman and the Dragon ), but only once committed an actual rape ( on Narreeman, in Flashman ).
A script for a Flashman film adaptation was written by Frank Muir in 1969, to star John Alderton, and is mentioned in his autobiography A Kentish Lad.
It was directed by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg.
Sobered by his experience with Lester, Fraser said that further film adaptations of the Flashman books have not been made because he " will not let anyone else have control of the script ... and that simply does not happen in Hollywood.
* In Flashman at the Charge Flashman is forced by Yakub Beg to shoot Congreve rockets against the Russian army during the period of the Crimean War.
( It was in this role that he was portrayed in the historical fiction novels Flashman and Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser.
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During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.
* George Macdonald Fraser's novel Flashman in the Great Game ( 1975 ) makes references to the " cult " of Thuggee, while the phrase: " pass the tobacco " is used as a verbal signal for the killing to begin.
* George Macdonald Fraser: The Flashman Series
George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman ( 1969 ) combine the picaresque with historical fiction.
An example is George MacDonald Fraser's tales of the dashing cad, poltroon, and bounder Sir Harry Paget Flashman.
Brooke is also featured in Flashman's Lady, the 6th book in George MacDonald Fraser's meticulously researched Flashman novels ; and in Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia ( I pirati della Malesia ), the second novel in Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.
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* Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser, a historical fiction novel about the Indian Revolt describing several meetings between Flashman and the Rani.
Called " Flashman and the Dragon " by George MacDonald Fraser, it was one of that author's densely-researched historical novels.
A half-century later, one of them ( George MacDonald Fraser, later author of the Flashman novels, then a nineteen-year-old lance corporal ) recalled :" But the biggest boost to morale was the burly man who came to talk to the assembled battalion … it was unforgettable.
George MacDonald Fraser describes the Thin Red Line, the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, and the Charge of the Light Brigade in his novel Flashman at the Charge.
* Wilkinson is the " hero " of Keith Thompson's Scoundrel !-- a satirical novel in the tradition of Gore Vidal's Burr and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, which purports to be Wilkinson's " secret " memoirs ( which Thompson claims to have just discovered ).
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* Napier appears in the George MacDonald Fraser novel " Flashman on the March ", in command of the Army of Abyssinia, and is nicknamed " the bughunter ", possibly a reference by Flashman to his membership of the Royal Society.
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