Julian Stockwin: The Iberian Flame: Thomas Kydd 20

Contents

Also by Julian Stockwin

Title Page

Copyright

Maps

Dramatis Personae

Epigraph

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Author’s Note

Glossary

Also by Julian Stockwin

Kydd

Artemis

Seaflower

Mutiny

Quarterdeck

Tenacious

Command

The Admiral’s Daughter

Treachery (US title: The Privateer’s Revenge)

Invasion

Victory

Conquest

Betrayal

Caribbee

Pasha

Tyger

Inferno

Persephone

The Baltic Prize

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Dramatis Personae

* indicates fictitious character

*Sir Thomas Kydd, captain of HMS Tyger

*Nicholas Renzi, Earl of Farndon, friend and former confidential secretary

Tyger, ship’s company

*Bowden

second lieutenant

*Bray

first lieutenant

*Brice

third lieutenant

*Clinton

captain, Royal Marines

*Darby

gunner

*Dillon

Kydd’s confidential secretary

*Dodd

sergeant, Royal Marines

*Doud

quartermaster’s mate

*Gilpin

midshipman

*Halgren

coxswain

*Joyce

sailing master

*Maynard

master’s mate

*Pinto

petty officer

*Rowan

midshipman

*Stirk

gunner’s mate

*Tysoe

Kydd’s valet

Others

Allemand

French rear admiral in command Rochefort fleet

*Appleby, Mrs

housekeeper of Knowle Manor

Beresford

British general under Moore

Bonaparte

French Emperor

Brightman

captain,

Concord

Broadwood

captain,

Lynx

Burrard

commander of British Forces, Iberia

*Campbell

flag-captain to Rowley

Canning

British foreign secretary

Carlos IV

King of Spain

Castlereagh

British secretary of state for war

Collingwood

commander-in-chief, Mediterranean fleet

Dalrymple

lieutenant general

De Courcy

admiral,

Tonnant

*Dolores de Vargas

Spanish patriot

Dom Antonio de

Castro

bishop and leader of Oporto junta

Dupont

French Imperial Army flying column commander

Espartero

aide to Montijo

Ezquerra

Spanish scholar and jurist

Fernando

Prince of Asturias, son of Carlos IV

*Fray Mendoza

Spanish cleric

Ganteaume

French vice admiral in command Brest fleet

Godoy

first minister to Carlos IV

*Grieves

lieutenant,

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th of foot

*Haig

an Admiralty secretary

Hayward

captain,

Vigilant

Herrera

secretary to Godoy

Iñaki Haro

leader, Bilbao junta

*Inglis

English envoy to the Spanish Army

Izquierdo

envoy to the Emperor of the French

*Jago

Renzi’s under-steward and privy assistant

Kellerman

French cavalry division commander and negotiator, Treaty of Cintra

Layton

captain,

Jason

*Marceau

French prisoner of war, former captain

Preussen

*Mariano Vicente

de Lis

Spanish scholar

*Mason

captain,

Riposte

*Meireles

captain of the armed forces of the junta of Oporto Douro

Montijo

count, Spanish court functionary

Moore

commander-in-chief, British forces in Spain

Morla

general, the Army of Andalucía

*Morton

clandestine agent for French escapees

Mowlam

captain,

Menander

Murat

head of French forces in Spain

Noriega

Bilbao freedom junta of Patriots

Nott

parole agent

*Ochoa

guerrilla

*Packwood

colonel and aide-de-camp to Moore

Pepita

mistress of Godoy

*Persephone

Lady Kydd

Portland

British prime minister

Rosily

French vice admiral of Iberian squadron in succession to Villeneuve

*Rowley

rear admiral,

Conqueror

Solano

royal governor of Cádiz

Soult

Marshal of France and pursuer of Moore

Strachan

vice admiral, Rochefort squadron

Thornbrough

vice admiral,

Royal Sovereign

*Tovey

blacksmith, Ivybridge

*Uribe

guerrilla commander

Wellesley

general, future Duke of Wellington

*Wishart

lieutenant, liaison officer to the Spanish Crown

‘I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne!’

Napoleon Bonaparte

Prologue

Spring 1808

Not forty miles from Paris, the Château de Fontainebleau lay in pompous repose. Before the Revolution its richly ornamented rooms had echoed to the pampered and carefree gaiety of the court of King Louis XVI. Now, a solemn and purposeful mood prevailed under its new occupant, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.