With the British Legion: A Story of the Carlist Wars

A restless young man, raised on the open fields of Liverpool and schooled in the rough freedoms of country life, finds his future thrust into uncertainty when his guardian, a busy solicitor, decides that a strict boarding school is the only way to tame his wild spirit. The opening scenes follow his daring escape from Chester, his uneasy relationship with the stern Mr. Hallett, and the promise of an inheritance that will only come when he reaches a respectable age.

Meanwhile, far across the sea, the British Legion—an assemblage of hardy volunteers under Sir de Lacy Evans—marches into the turmoil of Spain’s Carlist Wars. The narrative intertwines the boy’s personal trials with the legion’s grim reality: heroic courage weighed down by neglect, disease, and delayed pay. Listeners are drawn into a vivid portrait of 19th‑century conflict and a young man’s fight to carve his own destiny amid chaos.