THE NEW REVELATION

Arthur Conan Doyle


PREFACE
I	How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear
II	How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa
III	How the Brigadier Slew the Fox [*]
IV	How the Brigadier Saved the Army
V	How the Brigadier Triumphed in England
VI	How the Brigadier Rode to Minsk
VII	How the Brigadier Bore Himself at Waterloo
VIII	The Last Adventure of the Brigadier

	INTRODUCTION
I	THE HOUSE OF LORING
II	HOW THE DEVIL CAME TO WAVERLEY
III	THE YELLOW HORSE OF CROOKSBURY
IV	HOW THE SUMMONER CAME TO THE MANOR HOUSE OF TILFORD
VI	IN WHICH LADY ERMYNTRUDE OPENS THE IRON COFFER
VII	HOW NIGEL WENT MARKETING TO GUILDFORD
VIII	HOW THE KING HAWKED ON CROOKSBURY HEATH
IX	HOW NIGEL HELD THE BRIDGE AT TILFORD
X	HOW THE KING GREETED HIS SENESCHAL OF CALAIS
XI	IN THE HALL OF THE KNIGHT OF DUPLIN
XII	HOW NIGEL FOUGHT THE TWISTED MAN OF SHALFORD
XIII	HOW THE COMRADES JOURNEYED DOWN THE OLD, OLD ROAD
XIV	HOW NIGEL CHASED THE RED FERRET
XV	HOW THE RED FERRET CAME TO COSFORD
XVI	HOW THE KING'S COURT FEASTED IN CALAIS CASTLE
XVII	THE SPANIARDS ON THE SEA
XVIII	HOW BLACK SIMON CLAIMED FORFEIT FROM THE KING OF SARK
XIX	HOW A SQUIRE OF ENGLAND MET A SQUIRE OF FRANCE
XX	HOW THE ENGLISH ATTEMPTED THE CASTLE OF LA BROHINIERE
XXI	HOW THE SECOND MESSENGER WENT TO COSFORD
XXII	HOW ROBERT OF BEAUMANOIR CAME TO PLOERMEL
XXIII	HOW THIRTY OF JOSSELIN ENCOUNTERED THIRTY OF PLOERMEL
XXIV	HOW NIGEL WAS CALLED TO HIS MASTER
XXV	HOW THE KING OF FRANCE HELD COUNSEL AT MAUPERTUIS
XXVI	HOW NIGEL FOUND HIS THIRD DEED
XXVII	HOW THE THIRD MESSENGER CAME TO COSFORD

	PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION.
CHAPTER 1.	THE BOER NATIONS.
CHAPTER 2.	THE CAUSE OF QUARREL.
CHAPTER 3.	THE NEGOTIATIONS.
CHAPTER 4.	THE EVE OF WAR.
CHAPTER 5.	TALANA HILL.
CHAPTER 6.	ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 7.	THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 8.	LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 9.	BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 10.	THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG.
CHAPTER 11.	BATTLE OF COLENSO.
CHAPTER 12.	THE DARK HOUR.
CHAPTER 13.	THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.
CHAPTER 14.	THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER 15.	SPION KOP.
CHAPTER 16.	VAALKRANZ.
CHAPTER 17.	BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE.
CHAPTER 18.	THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.
CHAPTER 19.	PAARDEBERG.
CHAPTER 20.	ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 21.	STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS'S MARCH.
CHAPTER 22.	THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN.
CHAPTER 23.	THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST.
CHAPTER 24.	THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING.
CHAPTER 25.	THE MARCH ON PRETORIA.
CHAPTER 26.	DIAMOND HILL—RUNDLE'S OPERATIONS.
CHAPTER 27.	THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION.
CHAPTER 28.	THE HALT AT PRETORIA.
CHAPTER 29.	THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT.
CHAPTER 30.	THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET.
CHAPTER 31.	THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT.
CHAPTER 32.	THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY.
CHAPTER 33.	THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901.
CHAPTER 34.	THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901).
CHAPTER 35.	THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY.
CHAPTER 36.	THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901).
CHAPTER 37.	THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902.
CHAPTER 38.	DE LA REY'S CAMPAIGN OF 1902.
CHAPTER 39.	THE END.

The Song of the Bow	1
Cremona	4
The Storming Party	13
The Frontier Line	18
Corporal Dick’s Promotion	21
A Forgotten Tale	28
Pennarby Mine	31
A Rover Chanty	35
A Ballad of the Ranks	40
A Lay of the Links	46
The Dying Whip	49
Master	61
H.M.S. ‘Foudroyant’	63
The Farnshire Cup	67
The Groom’s Story	77
With the Chiddingfolds	88
A Hunting Morning	91
The Old Gray Fox	96
’Ware Holes	101
The Home-coming of the ‘Eurydice’	105
The Inner Room	109
The Irish Colonel	114
The Blind Archer	115
A Parable	118
A Tragedy	119
The Passing	121
The Franklin’s Maid	131
The Old Huntsman	133

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