Excerpt from Maurice Tiernay: The Soldier of Fortune The strangeness of some of the incidents, and the rapidity with which events so remarkable succeeded each other, almost deterred the writer from ever committing them to the press; nor was it till after much consultation and some persuasive influence on the part of friends that he at length yielded, and decided upon so doing. Whether in that determination his choice was a wise one, must be left to the judgment of the reader: for himself he has but to say, that to ponder over some of these early scenes, and turn over in thought some of his youthful passages, has solaced many a weary hour of an age when men make few new friendships, and have almost as few opportunities to cultivate old ones. That the chief events related in these pages - such, for instance, as every detail of the French invasion, the capture of Wolfe Tone, and the attack on Monte di Faccio - are rigidly exacts the writer is most sincere in the expression of his conviction; for the truth of incident purely personal it is needless to press any claim, seeing that he was this hero - owns no higher name than that of a Soldier of Fortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.