A few weeks after a large French raiding party had been driven away from
the Isle of Wight, another flotilla arrived from across the Channel demanding money with menaces.
Abraham invites his son Isaac to accompany him to a nearby
mountain to offer sacrifice, and the boy is naturally curious to know what gift his father
proposes to offer.
Months after promising England would help Holland escape the clutches of
Catholic Europe, Charles II did a secret deal with France to sell out Holland and England together.
In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.