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• Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1066-1485 -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714 -- Fiction

• The Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, A Highland Officer, Now in Prison at Avignon (London: Printed for R. King and W. Boreham, 1719), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• The Excalibur Alternative (included on a Baen CD image), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB

• Memoirs of a Cavalier: or, A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England, From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648 (1922), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Elizabeth O'Neill (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Wars of Wessex: Being Studies From England's School of Arms in the West (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Albany F. Major, ed. by Charles W. Whistler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1899), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Memoirs of the 65th Regiment, 1st Battn. the York and Lancaster Regt., 1756 to 1913 (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1914), ed. by Ernest Chamier Broughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Story of Our Army (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Owen Wheeler (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Discourse Concerning Militia's and Standing Armies, With Relation to the Past and Present Governments of Europe, and of England in Particular (London, 1697), by Andrew Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militia's (Edinburgh, 1698), by Andrew Fletcher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias (London: Reprinted for M. Cooper, 1755), by Andrew Fletcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A True Coppie of a Discourse Written by a Gentleman, Employed in the Late Voyage of Spaine and Portingale (1589), by Anthony Wingfield (page images at LOC)

• The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, Commonly Call'd Mother Ross (narration attributed in text to Davies; sometimes questionably attributed to Defoe; 1743), by Christian Davies, contrib. by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at Google)

• The Diary of Sir John Moore (2 volumes; London: E. Arnold, 1904), by John Moore, ed. by John Frederick Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1797), by Bryan Edwards
  • page images at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pickle the Spy: or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Kitchener in His Own Words (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Our Soldiers, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Annals of an Active Life (2 volumes; New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Nevil Macready (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (partial serial archives)

• The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton (sometimes attributed to Defoe; London: Printed for E. Symon, 1728), contrib. by George Carleton and Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Puck of Pook's Hill (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Puck of Pook's Hill (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1906), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Romance of History: England (3 volumes; London: Bull and Churton, 1833), by Henry Neele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fair Lady of Halifax: or, Colmey's Six Hundred (Raleigh, NC: Edwards and Broughton Co., 1920), by Ronleigh de Conval (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg text)

• Silver Cross (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Danvers Papers: An Invention (London: Macmillan and Co., 1867), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)

• Cheap Jack Zita (fourth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1896), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heritage Perilous (c1946), by Jeffery Farnol (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Castle Inn (1898), by Stanley John Weyman, illust. by Walter Appleton Clark
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman Returned from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America, Where He Had Been Sent by the Wicked Contrivances of His Cruel Uncle (London: J. Freeman, 1743), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at Google)

• Ravenshoe (new edition; London et al.: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1894), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Richard Caton Woodville (Gutenberg text)
• Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Dragon and the Raven: or, The Days of King Alfred, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• In the Days of Alfred the Great, by Eva March Tappan, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Devereux, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)
• The Maidens' Lodge, by Emily Sarah Holt, illust. by Horace Petherick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brs., c1860), by G. P. R. James (Gutenberg text)

• The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)

• John Inglesant: A Romance (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1881), by J. H. Shorthouse
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Fortunate Mistress: or, A History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana (from a "Works of Daniel Defoe" set, with a posthumously published continuation, and an introduction by Maynadier; New York: G. D. Sproul, 1908), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Howard Maynadier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Great Roxhythe (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), by Georgette Heyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• "My Merry Rockhurst" (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Peveril of the Peak (new edition, with author's notes; London and New York: G. Routledge, 1879), by Walter Scott, illust. by George Cruikshank and H. Melville (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Simon Dale (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by Anthony Hope, illust. by W. St. John Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Simon Dale (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1897), by Anthony Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Touchstone of Fortune, by Charles Major (Gutenberg text)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Great Romantic: Being an Interpretation of Mr. Saml. Pepys and Elizabeth His Wife (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1933), by L. Adams Beck (page images at HathiTrust)

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