Memoirs of a Cavalier - A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. - From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoirs of a Cavalier, by Daniel DefoeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 tothe Year 1648.Author: Daniel DefoeRelease Date: May 4, 2004 [EBook #12259]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER ***Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Audrey Longhurst, Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIERorA Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England.From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648.By Daniel DefoeEdited with Introduction and Notes by Elizabeth O'Neill1922INTRODUCTION.Daniel Defoe is, perhaps, best known to us as the author of Robinson Crusoe, a book which has been the delight ofgenerations of boys and girls ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century. For it was then that Defoe lived andwrote, being one of the new school of prose writers which grew up at that time and which gave England new forms ofliterature almost unknown to an earlier age. Defoe was a vigorous pamphleteer, writing first on the Whig side and laterfor the Tories in the reigns of William III and Anne. He did much to foster the growth of the ...