FLASHMAN
CHRONOLOGY
This chronology has been
reprinted from the 'Flashman Reader' with the permission of the author
© David M. Tibbetts
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April
16th:
Flashman's grandfather 'runs screaming' from the battle of Culloden.
Interestingly, he fought on the Jacobite side which
may explain why he then left
August
5th: Bill Richmond born in
Cuckold's Town,
July
8th: Tom Cribb born at Hanaham,
near
August
21st: John Gully born at the
Rose and Crown, Wick and Abson, near
March
23rd: Tom Molineaux born into
slavery in
Harry Buckley Flashman attends
November
The Great Rugby School Rebellion
takes place. Willoughby Cotton takes a leading role and is expelled for his
part.
He was 14 years
old.
November
9th: General Napoleon Bonaparte
overthrows the Directory and assumed leadership of the French
nation.
March
25th: Treaty of
April
29th: Peace is officially declared
by the British government in
Mary Anne Clarke becomes the
Duke of York's mistress.
May
18th:
August
11th: Henry Pearce 'The
Game Chicken' beats 'Deaf Jim' Burke. The fight lasts 20 minutes and
was 15 rounds long. Pearce becomes Heavyweight
Champion.
March
10th: Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron
(Lord) Camelford is killed in a duel.
January
7th: Tom Cribb beats George
Maddox. The fight lasts 2 hours 12 minutes and was 76 rounds
long.
February
15th: Tom Cribb beats Tom 'Tough'
Blake . The fight lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and was 20 rounds
long.
May
21st: Tom Cribb beats Ikey
Pig. The fight lasts 30 minutes and was 11 rounds
long.
July
5th: Tom Cribb loses his only
fight to George Nicholls. The fight lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and was 52 rounds
long.
This is the only loss in Cribb's career and it is said
he was drunk at the time.
October
8th: Tom Cribb beats Bill Richmond.
The fight lasts 1 hour 30 minutes. John Gully loses
to Henry Pearce for the Heavyweight title of
April
8th: Tom Cribb beats Jem Belcher.
The fight lasts 35 minutes and was 41 rounds long. Cribb was trained by Barclay
Allardice.
October
John Gully become Heavyweight
Champion due to retirement of Hen
Pearce.
14th: John Gully beats Bob
Gregson.
The fight lasts 40 minutes and was 36 rounds
long.
May
10th: John Gully beats Bob
Gregson for the second time. After the fight Gully announces he is retiring
from boxing. On the same bill, Tom Cribb beats Horton in an exhibition
match.
June
14th: Sir Arthur Wellesley
is given command of an Expeditionary Force to
30th: 20th Light Dragoons sail
from
July
10th: The Expeditionary Force
sails from
August
1st: Buckley Flashman is in a
cavalry regiment, most probably the 20th Light
Dragoons. Arthur Wellesley
arrives in
5th: Landing of the army is
complete.
8th: Army begins its advance
along the coast towards
17th:
21st:
30th: The Convention of Cintra
is signed between the British and French commanders in
September
20th: Arthur Wellesley sails
from
October
4th: Arthur Wellesley arrives
at
13th: The 20th Light Dragoons
are ordered to remain at
25th: Tom Cribb beats Bob Gregson.
The fight lasts 45 minutes and was 23 rounds long. Tom Cribb claims the vacant
Heavyweight Crown.
November
14th: Enquiry opens into the
signing of the Convention of Cintra.
December
27th: Enquiry ends into the
signing of the Convention of Cintra. The three British generals who signed
it - Sir Hew Dalrymple, the commanding officer; Sir Harry Burrard, his
second-in-command; Sir Arthur Wellesley, who opposed the treaty - were exonerated
of any blame for signing the Convention. It is noted however that Sir Hew
Dalrymple and Sir Harry Burrard were never given a command
again.
January
16th:
18th: British army in
February
1st: Tom Cribb beats Jem Belcher
for a second time. The fight lasts 40 minutes and was 31 rounds
long.
March
8th-11th: Commons debate on
Mary Clarke, who had been the Duke of York's mistress, selling army
commissions.
18th: Though acquitted of taking bribes
himself, the Duke of York resigns as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces.
April
22nd: Sir Arthur Wellesley
arrives in
27th: Sir Arthur Wellesley
assumes control of the British army in
30th: Henry Pearce 'The
Game Chicken' dies in
May
12th:
14th: 20th Light Dragoons are
ordered to return to
The two squadrons of 20th Light
Dragoons that had arrived with
June
1st: Barclay Allardice begins
his celebrated '1000 miles in 1000 hours' walking bet at
8th:
23rd: 23rd Light Dragoons arrive
at
27th: After resting his army
and with reinforcements
July
9th: The British army arrives
at its forward base at Plasencia in
12th: Barclay Allardice completes
the walk and wins the bet.
18th: Flashman and the 23rd Light
Dragoons march off with Wellesley and the British army having reached Plasencia
a few days earlier.
28th: Harry Buckley Flashman is
with the 23rd Light Dragoons at the battle of Talavera. During the morning
there was a spontaneous ceasefire and the British and French refreshed themselves
from the Portina Brook and swapped tobacco and other items. In the afternoon
the 23rd Light Dragoons and King's German Legion charge the French cavalry.
As they approach the French a ravine appears in their path. The commanders
try to halt the charge but Buckley Flashman leaps the ravine and is followed
by the rest of the cavalry and many fall or are dismounted. A skirmish ensues
between the British and French cavalry in which the British come off worst.
Buckley is taken prisoner.
29th: Buckley Flashman is exchanged
for French officers. He is given the nickname of 'Mad Buck'.
August
Buckley Flashman fights four duels
in three weeks.
September
21st: Buckley Flashman arrives
back in
October
Buckley Flashman manages to break
up the affair between Harry Somerset and a well-known courtesan called Harriette
Wilson much to the father's, the Duke of Beaufort, delight.
April
The Duke of Beaufort arranges for
Buckley to receive a ticket to
Almack's.
2nd: First ball of the new season
is held at Almack's. Buckley Flashman, accompanied by 'Kangaroo' Cooke, is
introduced to the Patronesses of Almack's, and the Countess of Wessex in
particular.
May
1st: Bill Richmond fights Jack
Power. He wins in 15 minutes.
June
Buckley Flashman sees Tom Molineaux
for the first time while at the Horse and Dolphin pub owned by Bill Richmond.
After witnessing Tom catch a fly in mid-air with his hand he becomes his
patron and arranges for Bill Richmond to house and train him to be a boxer.
Bill hires Thomas 'Paddington'
Jones to be the trainer.
July
24th: Buckley Flashman witnesses
Tom Molineaux's first proper fight against Jack Burrows at Tothill. Molineaux
won after 65 minutes
25th: Buckley arranges for George
Brummell to dress Molineaux in the 'height of fashion' at
Weston's.
26th: Buckley takes Tom Molineaux
to collect his clothes. He then takes Tom on a carriage ride through
August
21st: Buckley Flashman witnesses
Tom Molineaux's fight against Tom "Tough" Blake at
Buckley finds out that Tom Molineaux
is bedding his current lover Belinda, Lady Manners. He confronts Tom outside
her house early one morning. A fight ensues in which Tom soundly thrashes
Buckley. This event ends Buckley Flashman's pugilistic patronage of Tom
Molineaux.
December
18th: Buckley Flashman witnesses
Tom Molineaux's first fight against Tom Cribb at Copthorn. In revenge for
Molineaux beating him up in a street brawl, Buckley arranges a longer pause
between one round to help Cribb recover. Cribb goes on to win the fight after
40 rounds lasting 55 minutes.
23rd: "Old Q", the Duke
of Queensbury dies aged 85.
May
21st: Tom Molineaux beats Rimmer
after 21 rounds.
July
4th: Regency Act passed in
Parliament. George, the Prince Regent, becomes Head of State instead of King
George III.
30th: Jem Belcher dies at his
pub in
September
28th: Tom Molineaux's second
fight with Tom Cribb at Thistleton Gap. Cribb wins after 11 rounds lasting
19 minutes, 10 seconds.
Cribb was again trained
by Barclay Allardice.
December
2nd: Tom Cribb is awarded a
silver Champion's cup.
19th: A benefit is held at
the Five's Court in
Mr. Walter Thom of
March
31st: Tom Molineaux arrested
for debt to Bill Richmond. His fight against Jack Carter is
postponed.
April
23th: Tom Molineaux beats Jack
Carter after 25 rounds.
May
27th: Tom Molineaux's fight
with William Fuller is declared a 'no contest' when the police interrupt
the match.
31st: Tom Molineaux wins the
rematch with William Fuller in two rounds. The two rounds lasted a combined
68 minutes!
March
10th: Tom Molineaux loses to
George Cooper in 14 rounds lasting 20
minutes.
June
15th:
August
4th: Tom Molineaux dies in
May
5th: Harry Paget Flashman born
at family home in Leicestershire to Harry Buckley Flashman and Hon. Alicia
Paget.
18th: Tom Cribb retires from
boxing and gave up his Heavyweight
crown.
Tom Brown born at family home
in the Vale of the White Horse in
December
28th: Bill Richmond dies in
Thomas 'Paddington' Jones is
interviewed about Tom Molineaux's
career.
September
According to Flashman he spent
8 years under Dr. Arnold's tutelage.
August
Tom Brown goes to school at
Hazeldown.
December
John Gully becomes Member of
Parliament for Pontefract.
Thomas 'Paddington' Jones dies
in Paddington,
October
Illness sweeps through the
school at Hazeldown. The school is closed and the pupils sent home. Tom Brown
arrives home much to the annoyance of his father. Squire Brown writes to
November
Tom Brown arrives at
Spring
Flashman, in the fifth form, moves
into Brown and East's passage in the
Schoolhouse.
May
Summer
A water bailiff catches Flashman
being taught 'biology' by Lady Geraldine. He later boasts about this event
at
June
20th:
Winter
Flashman is beaten up by Tom Brown
and Harry East at
May
20th: Flashman is found drunk
by Rufton, a
21st: Flashman returns home. He
meets Judy Parsons, his father's mistress for the first time.
Henry Brougham makes
a disparaging attack on Queen
22nd: Flashman has sex with Judy
while his father is out at his club.
23rd: Flashman attempt to have
Judy again but when she refuses him.
24th: Flashman visits Uncle Bindley
at Horse Guards about securing a commission in the 11th Light
Dragoons.
June
Before leaving for Canterbury Flashman
makes one last attempt to have another romp with Judy. Again she refuses
him. This time he gets into a filthy temper and beats
her.
Flashman joins the 11th Light Dragoons
at
February
7th: 11th Light Dragoons escort
May
Flashman sees Bernier walking with
his mistress, Josette. He finds out where she lives and has sex with her.
Bernier discovers them together and leaves
her.
Flashman makes a coarse comment
alluding to Bernier's sexual prowess during a card game. Bernier strikes
him and Flashman is forced, through etiquette, to fight a duel with him.
He bribes Bryant to give Bernier an unloaded gun which he does. Flashman
appears to delope by not shooting back at Bernier. Bernier is furious at
this but Cardigan is delighted. Bryant asks for his money but Flashman refuses
to pay him.
June
6th: Flashman stays with a local
mill owner John Morrison and his family at Renfrew.
7th: Flashman and the Morrisons
attend church.
15th: An incident at a mill incites
mill workers on to the streets in protest. Flashman and the militia are called
out but there is no trouble and the crowd disperses. While taking Elspeth
to Glasgow Flashman has sex with her.
20th: Flashman is forced to marry
Elspeth or be publicly humiliated by her uncle, Douglas Abercrombie.
27th: Harry Flashman and Elspeth
Morrison marry in Paisley Abbey and have a short honeymoon in
Troon.
July
Flashman returns to
November
Flashman arrives in
December
17th: After being recognised as
the celebrated duelling Flashman, General Crawford invites him to dine with
Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India. Due to his skill in learning
Hindu quickly Flashman is assigned to join the Army of the
18th: Flashman meets his new commander,
General William Elphinstone.
January
Flashman travels from
March
At
After three days on the road beyond
Reporting his arrival, Flashman
meets Generals Cotton and Nott and learns about the precarious position of
the army in
Over the next few weeks Flashman
improves his Pushtu. He comes to the attention of Alexander Burnes, the Political
Agent in
April
21st: Flashman is sent by Cotton
and Burnes on a diplomatic mission to the Gilzai chief, Sher Afzul, at his
fortress at Mogala.
22nd: Flashman and his escort
camp at Khoord-Kabul.
23rd: Having left the road at
Tezeen they camp in the hills.
24th Flashman arrives at Mogala.
He meets with Sher Afzul. . He strikes up a friendship with his son, Ilderim
Khan. He makes an enemy of his nephew, Gul Shah, after raping his woman,
Narreeman, during the night.
26th: Flashman witnesses a bit
of Afghan justice when four thieves are put to death and a petty chieftain
is blinded.
27th: During a boar hunt Flashman
and Iqbal are attacked by four of Gul's men. Iqbal kills two outright, mortally
wounds a third but is fatally wounded himself by a fourth. Flashman stabs
Iqbal's killer in the back with a lance and kills the other wounded man by
stabbing him in the throat. Flashman is found with five dead men around him.
It is presumed he killed the attackers in combat. Flashman is given the nickname
Bloody Lance.
30th: Flashman returns from his
trip to Mogala.
Elphinstone arrives in
Summer
Flashman rides with Ilderim Khan,
improves his Pushtu. NcNagten tries to lower the Gilzai
subsidy.
October
Alexander Burnes sends Flashman
to deliver a message to General Sale. He takes Ilderim and all his Gilzai
followers for safety.
31st: Flashman is unable to get
through to General Sale with a message due to Afghan attacks on
November
1st: Flashman arrives back in
2nd: A mob storm the British Residency
in
3rd: Flashman is forced to play
tug-of-war over a pit of snakes for his life watched by Gul Shah. He is rescued
just in time by Akbar Khan.
9th: Albert Edward, later Edward
VII, born at
11th: Akbar Khan visits Flashman,
imprisoned in a house in
22nd: General Shelton leads
an attack on Afghan positions on the Beymaroo Hills. His men are badly shot
up and routed.
24th: Akbar Khan makes his
first public appearance in
December
11th: McNaghten meets with
Akbar Khan and other Afghan leaders to agree a treaty. Its terms amount to
a total withdrawal of British influence in
22nd: Flashman is released by
Akbar Khan. He tells McNaghten of Akbar's demands. He agrees to meet with
Akbar Khan at Mohamed's Fort outside
23rd: Flashman rides out with
McNaghten, Mackenzie, Lawrence and Trevor to meet Akbar and other Afghan
leaders to discuss terms. Akbar seizes them as prisoners. In the confusion
that follows McNaghten and Trevor are killed and Flashman
escapes.
24th: Mackenzie and Lawrence are
released. The Council of Officers is held in the garrison. A decision is
reached to leave
January
6th: The British garrison and
its followers leave
8th: Afghan warriors kill many
in the narrow Khoord-Kabul pass.
11th: The army arrives at Jugdulluk.
"United Front" of officers takes place. Flashman tells
13th: The remnant of the army
is attacked and destroyed at Gandamack. Flashman and Hudson witness it from
a hilltop.
14th: Flashman and Hudson are
captured by Afghans.
15th: Flashman and Hudson are
imprisoned in a remote hill fort.
March
6th:
Gul Shah and Narreeman
arrive at the hill fort.
Flashman is tortured in
the cell by Gul Shah for information.
8th: Narreeman is brought in to
exact her revenge on Flashman for raping her.
10th: Flashman and Hudson arrive
at Piper's Fort, Jallalabad and are greeted by Sergeant Wells. Flashman takes
no part in the fort's defence and spends his time lying on a cot wandering
in and out of consciousness. Wells is
killed.
11th: Piper's Fort comes under
severe attack from cannon and most of the fort is destroyed.
Flashman awakens after siege in
a hospital in Jallalabad.
April
16th:
General Pollock arrives
in Jallalabad with a relief force.
He visits Flashman in hospital
with Robert Sale.
Flashman leaves Jallalabad and
returns to
June
12th: Dr. Arnold dies at
September
Flashman returns to
Flashman meets Tom Brown at The
Green Man and Brown invites him to play cricket for Rugby against
Flashman has a relationship with
Fanny Paget, wife of William Paget, who is also a lover of Cardigan. He
inadvertently gets involved in Paget's attempt to blackmail Cardigan about
his relationship with his wife. While at Fanny's house in Berkeley Square
Cardigan arrived and Flashman hides under a sofa. Already under the sofa
was Fred Winter, an informer working for William Paget, spying on Fanny Paget.
Flashman must have bribed Winter to keep his part in the affair quiet because
he was not mentioned at the subsequent trial for adultery brought by William
Paget which took place in December
1843.
October
Flashman and Speedicut are nearly
arrested during a raid at the Minor Club in St. James's,
Flashman is taken by the Duke of
Wellington to
November
Flashman joins Speedicut and others
for a hunting weekend at Tom Perceval's home in Leicestershire. Here Flashman
meets
December
Solomon Haslam has dinner at Flashman's
house. He impresses John Morrison with his business knowledge. Over the coming
months the Flashmans and Haslam spend a lot of time
together.
Winter
Flashman assists Lady Cardigan
with making a fool of one of Lord Cardigan's lovers. Lady Cardigan wrote
to the woman, a Mrs. Browne, pretending to be Cardigan and arranged a visit
which stipulated that Mrs. Browne was to be alone and the room in darkness
for him. Lady Cardigan then sent Flashman, whom she calls
'
Spring
While at a country house getting
a cure for alcoholism, Harry Buckley Flashman gives an interview about his
early career in the military and life in
May
John Morrison arrives back
in
Flashman learns of Rosanna James's,
now known as Lola Montez, forthcoming appearance at Her Majesty's Theatre
and contrives to sabotage it. He approaches Lord Ranelagh, who was rejected
as a lover by Rosanna James, about the
performance.
June
3rd: Lord Ranelagh's party sabotage
Lola Montez's performance. She is booed off the stage after it becomes known
she is Rosanna James, an Irish woman and not a famous Spanish
dancer.
5th: Flashman receives two letters:
one from Uncle Bindley about a potential lieutenancy in the Guards, the other
from Alfred Mynn about joining his cricket side for
11th: Flashman arrives at the
Magpie and Stump opposite Newgate prison. He joins Conyngham, Spottswood,
Speedicut and others.
12th: Flashman and friends watch
a public hanging early in the morning. He meets Tighe again who is also off
to
16th: Flashman finally gets to
grip with Mrs. Lade in the morning. They are seen by Solomon Haslam. Flashman
gets 5 for 12 against an All England XI in the afternoon match. Solomon Haslam
invites the Flashmans to sail to the
17th: Flashman and Haslam play
their cricket match which ends in a draw. This causes Tighe to lose his bet.
Flashman learns that the Duke is looking for him after Mrs. Lade tells him
about her and Flashman. Flashman heads off to
While in
30th: Flashman and family sail
with Solomon Haslam from
April
Haslam's ship arrives in
July
26th: Flashman and Elspeth
quarrel. She goes off
with her father sailing with Solomon Haslam who kidnaps her leaving Morrison
drugged on a beach. Flashman goes to a Chinese restaurant, the
27th: Meetings go on all night
and into the morning on how to rescue Elspeth. Whampoa finds out that Solomon
Haslam is the notorious pirate Sulieman Usman. Flashman recuperates from
his wound at Whampoa's house.
29th: Flashman watches James Brooke
leave
31st: Flashman leaves
August
4th: H.M.S. Dido reaches Kuching.
Flashman has dinner with James Brooke and friends in his house, The
Grove.
5th: James Brooke sails from Kuching
with his flotilla to rescue Elspeth.
6th: Flashman watches Keppel destroy
a pirate fleet with rockets at
7th: Flashman takes part in the
storming of Patusan.
10th: After two days rest Brooke's
flotilla sails up the Batang Lupar river to the mouth of the Undup
river.
11th: Brooke finds that the pirates
have fled up the Undup river.
12th - 13th: Brooke's flotilla
sails up the Undup river.
14th: Sharif Muller's fort on
the Undup river is captured and destroyed by Brooke's forces. They discover
that Sulieman Usman has sailed up the Skrang
river.
15th - 17th: Brooke's flotilla
sails back down the Undup river and then up the Skrang
river.
18th: James Brooke invites Flashman,
Henry Keppel, George Stuart, Charlie Johnson and Paitingi Ali to dinner on
the Jolly Bachelor.
19th: Flashman, Paitingi Ali and
George Stuart successfully trigger an ambush laid by Usman.
September
2nd: Flashman regains consciousness
on the Sulu Queen. He is harangued by Usman for surviving all the fighting
on Brooke's campaign against the pirates. He is reunited with Elspeth. Sulieman
tells Flashman the Sulu Queen is 70° E 10° S.
This point is approximately
one hundred miles south of the island of Diego Garcia (at the very southern
tip of the Maldives and now an Anglo-U.S. naval base) in the Indian Ocean.
The Sulu Queen appears to have travelled some 2000 miles in just 14
days.
9th: The Sulu Queen drops anchor
off
17th: Flashman arrives at the
capital,
18th: Flashman is put up for auction
in a slave market. This is mere protocol as, being a foreigner, he is de
facto property of Queen Ranavalona. While there he meets another European,
Jean Laborde, who is now a citizen of
19th: After witnessing the ceremony
of the Queen's Bath Flashman has a private audience with Queen Ranavalona.
She takes a liking to him. Later, the Queen's personal secretary, Mr.
Fankanonikaka tells Flashman he has been given the title of Sergeant-General
and the task of drilling the Malagassy army. He also begins six months as
Queen Ranavalona's lover.
October
Elspeth writes in her diary
about being on the island in the house of Prince Rakota, though she does
not realise she is officially a prisoner there
too.
After four weeks on Madagascar
Flashman finally gets to visit Elspeth at Prince Rakota's
house.
June
9th: Flashman attends a party
at the palace. He gets caught up in a plot to overthrow Queen
Ranavalona.
10th: The plot is discovered and
Flashman is forced to undergo the tanguin poison test to test his innocence.
He survives but decides to escape that night knowing that a British ship
was off Tamitave. Collecting Elspeth they ride for
Tamitave.
14th: The Flashmans reach the
Queen's
15th:
French and British warships
bombard Tamitave and land troops to attack the
fort. The Flashmans arrive there during the attack and are rescued
from
July
Flashman is ordered to
August
Flashman arrives in
September
20th: Flashman arrives at
21st: Flashman witnesses Jawaheer
Singh murder by the Khalsa on Maian
Mir.
22nd: Flashman watches Jawaheer's
funeral pyre from the
October
Flashman reports little chance
of war with the Khalsa that winter.
Jeendan takes Dalip
Singh to
November
Flashman spends his days discussing
the Soochet legacy.
December
6th: Flashman sends word to Broadfoot
about confusion in the Khalsa army.
11th: The Khalsa army invade
13th: Flashman spends the night
with Mangla.
14th: Flashman gets a message
purporting to be from Broadfoot to visit the French Soldiers Cabaret in
15th: Flashman goes to the French
Soldiers Cabaret. Goolab Singh saves him from a Khalsa trap. As they try
to escape from the Khalsa Flashman is captured and then tortured. Jassa rescues
Flashman and takes him to
16th: Flashman leaves
17th: Flashman carries a message
of friendship from Tej and Lal Singh to Nicolson in Ferozepore. He tells
of their treachery in wanting the Sikh army destroyed and how he has helped
them arrange the splitting of their force. In the evening cannon fire is
heard.
18th: Flashman in British camp
at Ferozepore and listens to cannon fire from the battle of Moodkee which
is fought through the darkness.
19th: Flashman arrives at Moodkee.
He meets with Gough and Hardinge. Flashman is ordered by George Broadfoot
not to take part in the next battle. He wants Flashman for a secret mission
to
20th: Gough's army, which now
includes Flashman, advances to
Ferozeshah.
21st: Flashman listens to the
first day of the Battle of Ferozeshah while tallying casualty lists at
Misreewallah. British advance and engage the Khalsa trenches. They drive
them out and capture their guns only to be ordered to withdraw. The Khalsa
reoccupy the trenches. George Broadfoot is
killed.
22nd: Second day of the Battle
of Ferozeshah. The British attack the trenches and again drive the Khalsa
out. Flashman inadvertently rides into the second phase of the battle, as
a second Khalsa army arrives, and is wounded in the hand. For no apparent
reason the Khalsa withdraw from the
battle.
January
23rd - 27th: The Khalsa attack
towards
28th: Harry Smith's army group
defeat the Khalsa at Battle of Aliwal near
Flashman is in Gough's camp in
Sobraon. Jassa arrives with a message from Alex Gardner asking for Flashman
to go to
February
5th: Flashman arrives in
8th: Flashman witnesses Jeendan
harangue a deputation from the Khalsa.
9th: They arrive at Jupindar and
are met by Goolab Singh. Flashman is given the Koh-i-noor by Dalip in exchange
for his gun. Flashman and Jassa leave Dalip with Goolab and head for British
lines. Jassa attempts to steal the Koh-i-noor. Flashman is caught by Khalsa
and nearly hung as a native deserter. He convinces the commander that he
is on a secret mission for the British to help the
10th: Flashman is taken to Sobraon
to speak with Tej Singh. In the confusion of the Khalsa camp he escapes.
Swimming to the far shore of the
11th: Flashman is picked up British
cavalry and taken to Nuggar Ford. He sends a message to
13th: While in hospital Flashman
receives a message from
14th: Flashman meets
15th: Flashman escorts Goolab
Singh to meet Hardinge in Kussoor. He has a last drink with Gough and his
officers but is embarrassed in front of them by a message sent from
Hardinge.
16th: Flashman, in the early hours
of the morning, embarrasses Hardinge in front of his staff by giving him
the Koh-i-noor diamond so that he can hand it back to the Sikhs who are meant
to give it to Hardinge as war reparations. He leaves the
(Flashman's whereabouts for the next 18
months are a total mystery -
Editor)
December
5th: Frederick Douglass buys
his freedom. It cost $710.96.
August
14th: Lola Montez is given
the title Countess of Landsfeld by King Ludwig I of
December
Flashman returns to
19th: Flashman and Helmuth leave
Flashman decides to spend a few
days in
January
2nd: They arrive in
5th: Rudi Von Starnberg calls on
Flashman and escorts him to Lola's palace. That night at a party Flashman
gets drunk. He is lured to a room by Lola. There he is ravished by Baroness
Pechmann but is charged with rape and
arrested.
6th: Starnberg arranges for the
charges to be dropped in return for Flashman leaving
9th: Flashman and Starnberg pass
through
12th: They arrive at a gloomy country
house. To his horror Flashman finds out it is Schönhausen when he meets
13th: Flashman begins training
to behave as Prince Gustaf. In revenge for his beating by Gully Bismarck
arranges a duel using schlager swords. De Gautet, one of
20th: King Christian VIII of
24th: Gold is discovered in
February
20th: Flashman leaves Schönhausen
with Rudi and de Gautet.
23rd: Flashman changes places with
Carl Gustaf at Tarlenheim.
24th: Flashman and party arrive
in Strackenz.
25th: Flashman, as Gustaf, marries
Irma on the next day. At the reception he has a bad moment with Erik Hansen,
who is Carl Gustaf's oldest friend, who suspects something is wrong. In the
afternoon they set off on their honeymoon for Strelhow which they reach at
dusk.
March
9th: De Gautet attempts to murder
Flashman but fails and is then knocked out in the ensuing fight. After torturing
de Gautet Flashman learns that the real Carl Gustaf is alive, was never ill
and is being held prisoner by
10th: The rescue is a success,
though Hansen is killed, and Flashman is told to leave Strackenz immediately.
Before doing so he rides back to
13th: During the journey south
he fall ill and spends time recovering in a village
hut.
19th: He spends the last of his
money on a train ticket to
21st: Flashman arrives in
22nd: They spend the day in the
house as no trains are running.
23rd: Lola decides to journey
on to another station. They arrive at a village and stay at an inn, Der
Senfbusch, overnight.
24th: Flashman awakens to find
Lola gone, and with her the Crown Jewels of
Strackenz.
31st: Flashman arrives back in
April
1st: Flashman learns that a great
demonstration by the Chartist reform movement is to be held in a few
days.
2nd - 8th: Flashman considers
running for Parliament. He also visits Uncle Bindley at Horse Guards.
Morrison is accepted
as a Special Constable for the demonstration
day.
10th: Flashman witnesses the Chartist
demonstration in
11th: Morrison, still wary about
public unrest, discusses funding Flashman's attempt to become a Member of
Parliament.
May
11th: Tom Cribb dies at Woolwich
aged 67.
24th: The Derby horse race
takes place on Epsom Downs near
25th: The Jewish Disabilities
Bill successfully passes through the House of Commons, but is refused a Second
Reading in the House of Lords by 163 votes to
128.
26th: Flashman and Morrison travel
to Locke's house in Cleeve House in Wiltshire. There he meets George Bentinck
and Benjamin D'Israeli. There is a political discussion in the evening. He
also meets Fanny Locke.
27th: Flashman and Fanny Locke
go riding on Roundway Down. On their return Flashman meets Henry Duberly,
Fanny's fiancée, and his old acquaintance from the 11th Hussars, Tom
Bryant. More political discussions in the evening followed by a game of
vingt-et-un in which many of the house guests take part. During the game
Bryant manages to place some cards in Flashman's pockets and then accuses
him of cheating. In a rage Flashman punches Bryant who falls downstairs and
nearly dies from a head injury. Flashman is put under house arrest by Locke
who is a local Justice of the Peace.
June