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In the seventeenth chapter, fifteen whites and six blacks march on Harper's Ferry through a blinding rain.

Only Brown and Kagi believe in victory. Flashy intends to survive for Elspeth's sake and to thwart the gods. They seize the Potomac bridge, cut telegraph wires, and capture the watchman; next come the Shenandoah bridge and armory gates. Flashy orders all captives gathered and care taken around the massed explosives. Brown gives an emancipation speech to a dozen frightened citizens and neglects to secure the rifle works and get out of town with the captured weapons before dawn. Mary Read and Anne Bonny also appear as characters.

Rogers agrees for his own reasons. According to Fraser's daughter Caro: It took us a while to get the combination.

If he had plans for another Flashma He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from until his death in Brooke was born and raised under the Company Raj in India. After a few years of education in England, he served in the Bengal Army, was wounded, and resigned his commission.

He then bought a ship and sailed out to the Malay Archipelago where, by helping to crush a rebellion, he became governor of Sarawak. He then vigorously suppressed piracy in the region and, in the ensuing turmoil, restored the Sultan of Brunei to his throne, for which the Sultan made Brooke the Rajah of Sarawak. He ruled until his death. Brooke was not without detractors and was criticised in the British Parliament and officially investigated in Singapore for his anti-piracy measures. He was, however, honoured and feted in London for his activities in Southeast Asia. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wa George Chapman Hitchin, Hertfordshire, c.

He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia. Life and work Chapman was born at Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There is conjecture that he studied at Oxford but did not take a degree, though no reliable evidence affirms this. Very little is known about Chapman's early life, but Mark Eccles uncovered records that reveal much about Chapman's difficulties and expectations.

This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero — a protagonist whose characteristics include the following: Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of antihero. George MacDonald Fraser 's Flashman novels. The great mass of manuscript known as the Flashman papers was discovered during a sale of household furniture The papers, which had apparently lain untouched for fifty years, in a tea chest Tom Molineaux — Black Ajax — fourth from the left was financially backed by Flashman's father.

As a result of drinking inferior champagne after recovering from dysentery , Flashman suffers from flatulence. The noise of his eruptions startles his horse to such an extent it bolts towards the Russian lines, speeding up the British advance. In a interview he said, "to me, the American Civil War is a colossal bore. It was a rotten war, it's been done to death and I'm not terribly interested. An American wrote to me urging me to write it, saying it had to be the high point of Flashman's career. I wrote back saying: The Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, these were the important things in Flashman's life.

He was so disinterested that he fought on both sides'.

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Fraser a , pp. Fraser , p. Reynolds, Stanley 4 January He created Harry Flashman, tormentor of Tom Brown turned comical anti-hero". Fraser a , p.

Hitchens , p. Fraser , pp. Fox, Margalit 3 January The New York Times.

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Whitman, Alden 29 July Ramsay , p. Reid, Melanie 20 November Langley, William 6 January Millar, Peter 15 October Krueger , p. Fraser b , p. Fraser b , pp. Mueller, Andrew 6 July McGrath, Charles 11 November Retrieved 3 February Fraser c , p. Fraser d , p. Allen , p. Allen, Bruce 1 September The World and I. Fraser, George MacDonald Flashman and the Mountain of Light.

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