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Reference book

I have found "The Boys Guide to the Historical Adventures of G.A. Henty" by William Potter, ISBN: 1-929241-15-1, to be very helpful. --Wulf 18:11, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

The author and his publisher made a rather obvious error of judgement with the colourful book covers ! All the charging horsemen are holding swords in their left hands. This isn't becaise they are all left handed, it is because the wonderful painting has been printed in reverse ! The book was not well researched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.152.99 (talk) 22:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just because they reversed the painting does not mean that the book is not useful. I think it is helpful Jehorn (talk) 23:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you're missing the point. If something as obvious as the front cover is wrong, what else is wrong within. You'd do far better to join The Henty Society and any information then would be accurate rather than the not very good 'The Boy's Guide....' from William Potter. I'm sure we can agree that thw writings of henty are very good and I have some 1500 volumes in my collection. All British I hasten to add, none of the American 'pirate' editions. I wish you well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Literarysite (talk • contribs) 23:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dates and children

The following quote is an exerpt from the article: "Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in 1859 he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in 1865 after a long illness."

Does this article mean to say that the duration of the marriage was 6 years and during this six-year period Elizabeth Henty gave birth to four children and suffered from a lengthy and terminal illness? Bigturtle 04:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's certainly what it looks like. DebateKid 16:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Military Campaigns - Clarification

Several of the wars named in this article have antiquated titles; hence, their ~~official~~ modern titles should be substituted at a later date. For example, the Austro-Italian War is commonly termed the Austro-Prussian War. The Carlist Rebellion is more widely known as the Glorious Revolution of Spain. The Ashanti Wars is possibly a eurocentric title, and the Turco-Siberian War needs a stub. -- Flask 10:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Who actualy gives wars their "Official Title"?Jalipa (talk) 19:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The victors? ;) In retrospect, I should have used the word "modern" or "contemporary" instead of "official." -- Flask (talk) 21:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The wars so named were the names of the time. There are always misguided nit-pickers ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.152.99 (talk) 22:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ISBN

Please avoid add the Category:ISBN needed category to this article. ISBN was invented in 1966. Any works printed, and are original, before this date will not have an ISBN number. G. A. Henty certainly won't have an ISBN number! Kilo-Lima|^(talk) 13:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 :Just because they reversed the painting does not mean that the book is not useful. I think it is helpful [[User:Jehorn|Jehorn]] ([[User talk:Jehorn|talk]]) 23:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
-Perhaps you're missing the point. If something as obvious as the front cover is wrong, what else is wrong within. You'd do far better to join The Henty Society and any information then would be accurate rather than the not very good 'The Boy's Guide....' from William Potter. I'm sure we can agree that thw writings of henty are very good and I have some 1500 volumes in my collection. All Britsh I hasten to add, none of the American 'pirate' editions. I wish you well.  <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Literarysite|Literarysite]] ([[User talk:Literarysite|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Literarysite|contribs]]) 23:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+Perhaps you're missing the point. If something as obvious as the front cover is wrong, what else is wrong within. You'd do far better to join The Henty Society and any information then would be accurate rather than the not very good 'The Boy's Guide....' from William Potter. I'm sure we can agree that thw writings of henty are very good and I have some 1500 volumes in my collection. All British I hasten to add, none of the American 'pirate' editions. I wish you well.  <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Literarysite|Literarysite]] ([[User talk:Literarysite|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Literarysite|contribs]]) 23:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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