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* Flashman at the Charge ( 1973 ): 1854-1855.
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In Hughes ' book, Flashman ( a relatively minor character ) is a notorious bully at Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness.
" Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, and gambles and boozes enthusiastically.
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.
Despite his admitted cowardice, Flashman was a dab hand at fighting when he had to.
During the siege of Pipers fort, in the first novel, Flashman cowered weeping in his bed at the start of the final assault ; the only witness to this died before relief came.
At one point, it is also mentioned that a member of the Flashman family was present at the Battle of Culloden, 1746.
* Flashman at the Charge: 1854-1855.
In Flashman and the Great Game, about halfway through his life, he counted up his sexual conquests while languishing in a dungeon at Gwalior, " not counting return engagements ", reaching a total of 478 up to that date.
* The Silk One ( aka Ko Dali's daughter ), consort of Yakub Beg ( Flashman at the Charge ).
* Sara ( Aunt Sara ), sister-in-law of Count Pencherjevsky ( Flashman at the Charge ).
* Valentina ( Valla ), daughter of Count Pencherjevsky ( Flashman at the Charge ).
* 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.
* Yakub Beg is a secondary character in the novel Flashman at the Charge, published in 1973.
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.
* Flashman at the Charge ( 1973 )
George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman at the Charge was in the April and June 1973 Playboy issues.
The 1992 – 93 season saw controversy at Underhill as Barnet chairman Stan Flashman regarding club accounts and players ' wages, resulting in some nationwide back page headlines.
Tom's principal enemy at Rugby is the bully Flashman.
Flashman also encounters the character of " Scud " East twice, first in Flashman at the Charge, when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War, and again in Flashman in the Great Game at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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In the novel Flashman at the Charge Ignatiev appears as a twenty-something Russian military officer and schemer who wishes to encourage the Tsar to launch an invasion of British-held India.
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* Flashman ( 1969 ): 1839-1842.
* Flashman in the Great Game ( 1975 ): 1856-1858.
* Flashman and the Redskins ( 1982 ): 1849-1850, 1875-1876.
* Flashman and the Dragon ( 1985 ): 1860.
* Flashman and the Mountain of Light ( 1990 ): 1845-46.
* Flashman and the Angel of the Lord ( 1994 ): 1858-1859.
* Flashman on the March ( 2005 ): 1868.
" He also pointed to a lack of a suitable British actor to portray Flashman ; Errol Flynn was always his favourite for the role ( although Flynn was Australian ): " It wasn't just his looks and his style.
Flashman and .
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.
* 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.
Several short-lived papers also appeared a few years later – the St Helena Times ( 1889 ), the Monthly Critic and Flashman ( 1895 ) and the St Helena Observer.
* 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.
* Montez also appears in Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, where she has a brief affair with Harry Flashman.
George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman ( 1969 ) combine the picaresque with historical fiction.
Fraser gave Flashman a lifespan from 1822 to 1915 and a birth-date of 5 May.
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.
" Despite their wealth, the Flashmans " were never the thing ": Flashman quotes the diarist Henry Greville's comment that " the coarse streak showed through, generation after generation, like dung beneath a rosebush.
When the first book, Flashman, was published in the United States, ten of 34 reviews took it to be an obscure but real memoir.
For the American publication, Fraser created a fictional entry for Flashman in the 1909 edition of Who's Who.
( 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 was a large man, six feet two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and close to 13 stone ( about 180 pounds or 82 kg ).
In Flashman and the Tiger, he mentions that one of his grandchildren has black hair and eyes, resembling him in his younger years.
As he admitted in the Papers, Flashman was a coward, who would flee from danger if there was any way to do so, and on some occasions collapsed in funk.
After his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness, the young Flashman looked for an easy life.
Flashman threw himself into the social life that the 11th offered and became a leading light of Canterbury society.
Flashman survived the ensuing debacle by a mixture of sheer luck and unstinting cowardice.
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