Project Gutenberg 2012-11-21 Public domain in the USA. 72 Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) 1872 1957 Brereton, Frederick Sadleir Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War" by Captain F. S. Brereton is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around the character Hal Marchant, a young man from Birmingham who faces sudden adversity after his father's financial ruin and subsequent death. The narrative explores themes of resilience, courage, and the transition from a life of comfort to one of hardship, as Hal embarks on a journey that leads him ultimately to America in pursuit of a new beginning. At the start of the book, we find Birmingham engulfed in a thick fog, setting a somber tone for the troubles soon to unfold in the Marchant family. Hal's father, Mr. Marchant, is confronted with financial catastrophe that shatters their once-thriving industrial business and leads to his demise from the shock. As Hal copes with his father's death and the loss of their family fortune, he resolves to leave Birmingham for America, compelled by the desire to reshape his destiny. The opening chapters set the stage for Hal's transformation from a privileged background to a life filled with uncertainty and adventure, hinting at the larger conflicts and historical backdrop of the Spanish-American War. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41425/41425-h/images/cover.jpg en Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Fiction 567466 567473 2024-09-17T11:24:25.154176 2023-09-18T06:23:07.762544 text/html text/html 566989 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 732464 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 764254 2024-09-17T11:24:31.801128 application/epub+zip 773047 2024-09-17T11:24:26.019207 application/epub+zip 289850 2024-09-17T11:24:25.585175 application/epub+zip 945450 2024-09-17T11:24:36.623164 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 913458 2024-09-17T11:24:31.373141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 430962 2022-09-19T03:40:19.167111 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 545484 545382 2024-09-17T11:24:24.110208 2023-09-18T06:23:06.783525 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 544968 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 206294 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 544959 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 206237 2012-11-21T10:00:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20410 2024-09-17T11:24:36.764101 application/rdf+xml 19571 2024-09-17T11:24:25.677256 image/jpeg 3003 2024-09-17T11:24:25.630180 image/jpeg 733515 2024-09-17T11:24:25.218178 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia