The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service AgentsiTHE ALSATIAN SMUGGLER WHO HELPED NAPOLEON TO CAPTURE THE AUSTRIAN ARMYTHIS is the story of a thrilling episode in the life of a man who has been called the Prince of Spies. His name was Charles Louis Schulmeister and he played a most invaluable part in building the fame of no less a person than Napoleon Bonaparte. What the greatest military genius of his time might have accomplished without the aid of his wonderfully effective secret
...service system must be left to the imagination. What he actually did with the assistance of Charles Louis Schulmeister and his associates is one of the most fascinating parts of the secret archives of France and Austria.First a word concerning the life and personality of this famous military spy. Pie was a native of an Alsatian village - New Freistell in the Grand Duchy of Baden, on the right bank of the Rhine. He was an adventurous boy and his early life was filled with hair-raising esTable of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; I The Alsatian Smuggler who helped Napoleon to capture the Austrian Army3; II Belle Boyd, the Confederate Girl who; saved Stonewall Jackson 21; III The Indian Scout who was the Hero; of King Philip's War35; IV How the Suicide of a Staff Officer; Once Averted War between Austria and Russia51; V The Romantic Side of Major Andre's; Unsuccessful Exploit6j; VI The Strange Adventures of the Cheva-; lier D'Eon at the Russian Court 79; VII How Napoleon's Chief Spy Hoodwinked; the Emperor of Austria 95; VIII Lydia Darrah, the brave Quakeress who saved Washington's army from; Destructionn J; IX Doctor Steiber and the Mystery of the; Franco-Prussian War129; X The Adventure of Private Morgan in; the camp of Cornwallis 145; XI The Mysterious and Romantic Case of; General Napper Tandy159; CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; XII How Monsieur de Meinau helped to make Jerome Bonaparte King of
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