Knight of the White Cross, A
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Product Information
Contributor(s): G A Henty (Author) , Rousas John Rushdoony (Foreword by)
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 487 pages
Product Dimensions: 1.46" H x 7.51" L x 5.52" W
Product Weight: (1.23 lbs)
Publisher: Preston-Speed Publications
Publish Date: August 1999
ISBN: 9781890623067
Target Age Group: age 9+
Product Description
In Henty’s A Knight of the White Cross, a story set in the times of the War of the Roses, Gervaise Tresham, a young Englishman, is sent by his father to join the Knights of St. John, a military order whose members take vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty. Caught up in the defense of the Holy Land and the Mediterranean, Gervaise is appointed commander of a war galley, and patrols the Mediterranean, which is infested by Moorish pirates. Imprisoned for a time in a Tripolitan prison, he escapes in time to take part in the defense of Rhodes before returning to his homeland.
Young Gervaise Tresham leaves England and the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses to become a Knight of St. John. Starting as a page of the Grand Master, Gervaise quickly attains knighthood and defends Europe and Christendom against the anarchy of piracy in the Mediterranean at that time and the expansion of the Turkish empire. Sir Tresham is there to defend the fortress at Rhodes during the first siege of that city by Soleiman.
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