AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEReaders interested in history will like to know that highwaymen on the roads in the seventeenth or eighteenth Century constituted a very real threat to the Banks.
For instance, in 1820 a fifteen thousand pounds consignment of Bullion for the Bank at Chipping North was stolen by highwaymen with the result that the Bank had to close down.
In this story, which takes place in 1824, all references to the Duke of Wellington’s Armies in the Peninsula and at Waterloo are authentic.
To this day the Fourteenth Light Dragoons use King Joseph’s silver pot de chambre at Mess functions and drink toasts from it in champagne, after which the pot is placed ceremoniously upon the drinker’s head!
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