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Michael Rudolph. Dupuy, Eliza A. (1814–1881).
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MICHAEL RUDOLPH. "THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE."

BY

MISS ELIZA A. DUPUY.

AUTHOR OF "WHY DID HE MARRY HER," "PLANTER'S DAUGHTER," "WAS HE GUILTY; OR, THE WARNING VOICE," "THE BRIDE OF FATE," ETC. In this novel the author has with great ingenuity blended fact with fiction, and few will rise from its perusal without believing that our own revolutionary hero, Michael Rudolph, is really identical with Marshal Ney. The story is full of incident, ranging over a most stirring period of the world's history, and the characters introduced form a striking tableau. Rudolph's domestic trials are finely wrought out, and the character of Alina is powerfully drawn. Lovers of romance, and readers of history will be equally interested in the development of this delightful story.

PHILADELPHIA: T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS; 306 CHESTNUT STREET.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

PREFACE.

THERE is a legend which at one time was widely believed in this country, that Michael Rudolph, a hero of our own revolution, and Michael Ney, Marshal of France, are the same person.

At the close of the Revolutionary war, Rudolph returned to his home to find a faithless wife, and dishonored name. He resigned his position in the American army, embarked for Havre, and was known to have engaged in trade in that city for a few months.

He then disappeared, and a young soldier gifted with the same remarkable military abilities, enlisted in the French army about the same time. Under Napoleon, the glory of this young adventurer finally culminated in that of Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskera.

Imagination has supplied the missing links, and I have not thought it necessary to present my hero under any other names than the one he inherited from good people, and that he won for himself.

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