# The Two Captains

Author: La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777-1843

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2826

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Two+Captains+La+Motte-Fouqu%C3%A9&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A Mild summer evening was resting on the shores of Malaga, awakening the guitar of many a merry singer among the ships in the harbor, and in the city houses, and in many an ornamental garden villa. Emulating the voices of the birds, the melodious tones greeted the refreshing coolness, and floated like perfumed exhalations from meadow and water, over the enchanting region. Some troops of infantry who were on the shore, and who purposed to spend the night there, that they might be ready for embarkation early on the following morning, forgot amid the charms of the pleasant eventide that they ought to devote these last few hours on European soil to ease and slumber; they began to sing militar...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-two-captains-2826/chapters/16/index.md)