title: The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
author:  Richard Stites 
description: <br>"Beautifully written, dramatic, and filled with life, <em>The Four Horsemen</em> is a tribute to the peoples and ideas that it champions....<em>The Four Horsemen</em> provides an original narrative of four particular upheavals that presaged the transition of governments from monarchies to constitutional regimes and nations-states....The Four Horsemen is transnational history at its finest."--Lucien J. Frary, <em>Modern Greek Studies Yearbook</em>
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  **Christmas with The Duke**
  
    
  
   _ **Katherine Keats**_
  
    
    
  
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  **_Table of Contents_**
  
   _One_
  
   _Two_
  
   _Three_
  
   _Four_
  
   _Five_
  
   _Six_
  
   _Seven_
  
   _Eight_
  
   _Nine_
  
   _Ten_
  
    
  
  **One**
  
  George Fortescue the Duke of Chester was not surprised to find his carriage
  held up on the road south. Highwaymen were a fact of life in the country and
  were becoming almost as dependable as toll roads and were just another expense
  to be endured. With the country's militias mostly fighting overseas in France,
  there was little policing of the roads and the duke was convinced this was
  what had bred such boldness in the thieves who plied the roadways of the
  country.
  
  Leaning out of the carriage window, the duke gave an amused smile to the band
  of three horsemen bearing down o