Lion of St. Mark; St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) was an outstanding English writer, journalist and traveler. In his youth, he fought in the Crimean War as part of the British army, and later covered major armed conflicts as a war correspondent. At the end of the 19th century, Henty was one of the most popular authors of historical adventure fiction. Since 1868, he wrote about 80 novels, including Under Drake's Fla...