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<h1> In Freedom's Cause </h1>
<h2> G. A. Henty </h2>
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<h3> CONTENTS </h3>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">I </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap01">Glen Cairn</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">II </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap02">Leaving Home</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">III </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap03">Sir William Wallace</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IV </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap04">The Capture of Lanark</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">V </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap05">A Treacherous Plot</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VI </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap06">The Barns of Ayr</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap07">The Cave in the Pentlands</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VIII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap08">The Council at Stirling</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IX </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap09">The Battle of Stirling Bridge</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">X </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap10">The Battle of Falkirk</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XI </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap11">Robert The Bruce</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap12">The Battle of Methven</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap13">The Castle of Dunstaffnage</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIV </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap14">Colonsay</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XV </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap15">A Mission to Ireland</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XVI </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap16">An Irish Rising</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XVII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap17">The King's Blood Hound</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XVIII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap18">The Hound Restored</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIX </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap19">The Convent of St. Kenneth</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XX </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap20">The Heiress of the Kerrs</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXI </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap21">The Siege of Aberfilly</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap22">A Prisoner</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXIII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap23">The Escape from Berwick</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXIV </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap24">The Progress of the War</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXV </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap25">The Capture of a Stronghold</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXVI </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap26">Edinburgh</SPAN></td>
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<td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XXVII </td>
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<SPAN href="#chap27">Bannockburn</SPAN></td>
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<h3> PREFACE. </h3>
<p>MY DEAR LADS,</p>
<p>There are few figures in history who have individually exercised
so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert
Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable
perseverance, and immense energy of these two men that Scotland
owed her freedom from English domination. So surprising were the
traditions of these feats performed by these heroes that it was at
one time the fashion to treat them as belonging as purely to legend
as the feats of St. George or King Arthur. Careful investigation,
however, has shown that so far from this being the case, almost
every deed reported to have been performed by them is verified by
contemporary historians. Sir William Wallace had the especial bad
fortune of having come down to us principally by the writings of
his bitter enemies, and even modern historians, who should have
taken a fairer view of his life, repeated the cry of the old English
writers that he was a bloodthirsty robber. Mr. W. Burns, however,
in his masterly and exhaustive work, The Scottish War of Independence,
has torn these calumnies to shreds, and has displayed Wallace as
he was, a high minded and noble patriot. While consulting other
writers, especially those who wrote at the time of or but shortly
after the events they record, I have for the most part followed
Burns in all the historical portions of the narrative. Throughout
the story, therefore, wherein it at all relates to Wallace, Bruce,
and the other historical characters, the circumstances and events
can be relied upon as strictly accurate, save only in the earlier
events of the career of Wallace, of which the details that have
come down to us are somewhat conflicting, although the main features
are now settled past question.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,<br/>
G.A. HENTY.<br/></p>
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