The History Of Henry Esmond Esq Colonel In The Service Of Her Majesty Q Anne

Download or read book The History of Henry Esmond, Esq written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England -- specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration -- and utilises characters both real (but dramatised) and imagined. It weaves its central character into a number of events such as the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton-Mohun Duel and the Hanoverian Succession.