Saddlebag Press Publisher
is tracking the origin and development of mounted combat formations in all armies in the American Revolution. Ten yearly volumes have related their history through Hobkirk's Hill. Volume XI now in preparation.
Announcement
Saddlebag Press has ventured into history as it could have been had the fates willed differently.
We have published the first and second volumes of the JAMES FRANCIS O'BANNION saga with a third volume in preparation. Despite his name and apparent parentage, O'Bannion insists that he is not Irish. He was born in London in 1753 and lived there for his first ten years. Then he went to Ireland with his father, Francis O'Bannion, to live at Fairbourne where he refined his skills as a horseman. Those skills plus some others induced
Lieutenant Colonel John Blaquiere to enlist him in the 17th Light Dragoons as an enlisted aide.
After serving in Paris with Blaquiere in the British embassy, O'Bannion returned to Dublin to work in the Viceroy's office. When Blaquiere was challenged by a notorious Irish duelist, O'Bannion without Blaquiere's knowledge arranged for the odds to be closer to even. Blaquiere won but dismissed O'Bannion for what he considered ungentlemanly conduct.
Two years later Blaquiere was instrumental in the appointment of O'Bannion as a gentleman volunteer in the 17th Light Dragoons on orders to go to Boston where our saga opens in April 1775.
THE O'BANNION SAGA
VOL. I NEITHER DEATH NOR GLORY, soft cover, 17.75
VOL.II STORM CLOUDS OVER YONKERS, soft cover,17.75
Total $35.00 no S&H charges!!!
