[permalink] [id link]
* 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.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Flashman and at
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.
* Flashman at the Charge ( 1973 ): 1854-1855.
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 ).
( 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.
Flashman and Charge
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.
Flashman and is
* 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.
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 ).
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.
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.
* In the 1982 novel Flashman and the Redskins, lead character Harry Paget Flashman is interviewed by Bridger just before heading west with his prostitute-laden wagon train.
Wodehouse in his review of the first Flashman novel that came to his attention: " Now I understand what that ‘ when a new planet swims into his ken ’ excitement is all about.
* 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 ).
* 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.
He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman.
He is best known for his Flashman series of historical novels, purportedly written by Harry Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days.
The series begins with Flashman, and is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics.
( As in Mr American, this novel is also connected to the Flashman series-in this case Sir Harry Flashman's father plays a minor role.
In the 1974 novel Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser, Ruritania is claimed to be a fictional country based on the ( equally fictional ) Duchy of Strackenz that borders Germany and Denmark, and the events of The Prisoner of Zenda were simply imitations of the adventures of Harry Paget Flashman whilst in Strackenz.
Flashman and by
* 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.
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.
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 ).
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.
* 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.
0.110 seconds.