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    Episode 4: Calum's Rage
    Episode 4: Calum's Rage
    Episode 4: Calum's Rage
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    Episode 4: Calum's Rage

    By Leigh Barker

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    Another Bitesize read! Clan Episode 4 ~ a 1 hour episode following our hero, Calum Maclean, as he desperately races to save the last of his kin.

    Colonel York has failed to capture Calum so takes his revenge by dragging away young Jamie to be hanged for a rebel.

    Calum’s rage boils over as he races towards the English camp. And the 200 infantry that remain after his gamble paid off and they suffered a terrible mauling.

    It’s just a few miles to the English encampment, but it’s all enemy territory. All York has to do is haul the boy up by the neck. Calum knows time is running out, and gallops flat out along the road. Straight into the English patrol.

    Finally, York looks as though he will get some small revenge for the trouble Calum has caused him. Even if the rebel is just a 12 year old boy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Barker
    Release dateMar 27, 2014
    ISBN9781311289209
    Episode 4: Calum's Rage
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    Leigh Barker

    Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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      Episode 4 - Leigh Barker

      Clan

      (Season 1)

      (Episode 4)

      Calum's Rage

      Copyright 2014 Leigh Barker

      Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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      ISBN: 9781311289209

      Calum’s Rage

      Calum thought about his plan for a few moments longer. The dragoons would be racing down the road in less than fifteen minutes, which was barely time for them to set up a workable ambush, but if his plan worked, all that would be unnecessary. One thing he’d learned in his years of war was that when disciplined cavalry met irregular forces, the cavalry always won. He wasn’t about to put that knowledge to the test now.

      He rapped his leg once to confirm his decision and turned to Robbie. Have you still got that red coat?

      Robbie was dressed in his Macpherson bright red and blue tartan with no red coat to be seen. He looked down pointedly and shook his head. I threw the thing away.

      Calum thought to ask the man to go and get it back, but there was no time for that. Don’t fret, he said reassuringly to the scout, who wasn’t fretting in the least.

      John stepped up closer to him. The English dragoons are coming down the road. Remember, laddie?

      Aye, said Calum with a wink. I’m counting on it.

      John took a long breath and let it out in a sigh. He could ask, but then that would just ruin the surprise. He shook his head slowly. We should m’be walk away?

      Calum nodded. We should perhaps run away.

      At last, said Alistair, a bonnie idea.

      Calum pointed along the road towards the bend and the English infantry beyond, and started to move, but John stepped in front of him.

      Those wee Englishmen will think we’re the rebels and shoot us to death. Y’know that?

      No, said Calum, they won’t. He pointed up the hill at the woods. The rebels are in yon woods. Can ya no hear the shouting and firing?

      John glanced up the hill and then looked along the road. It is just bold enough to work. He nodded once and let Calum past.

      The twenty men made for a fearsome sight as they ran along the muddy road away from the dragoons. Fierce men with drawn broadswords, their kilts flapping and mud splattering out in all directions. Warriors all, but running from a fight. But if anyone had asked Calum, he would have told them they were running towards a fight, not from one. Nobody asked; they just followed him without question.

      Another crackle of musket fire and the scream of war cries rolled down the hillside from the woods where the pitched battle between the English infantry and Lord Loudon’s Camerons was raging.

      Colonel Fulton licked his lips and looked along the hoof-churned road. The crimson of the mens’ uniforms clashed harshly with the autumn orange of the hedge on which they rested their muskets and waited. They seemed steady enough, grumbling and exchanging remarks to ease the tension. But his mouth was dry, and his ears buzzed as if a dozen blowflies were zipping around him.

      He looked across the wide field to the edge of the woods. If the rebels came, it would be from there. That would be a good thing. They would be out in the open and exposed

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