A flash of steel, a clash of blades, the roar of shot from a smoking musket! These are the basics of the swashbuckling adventure story, which for more than a century has thrilled readers with exciting accounts of chivalrous swordsmen, pillaging pirates, and gallant musketeers. A Treasury of Swashbuckling Adventures features fourteen classic tales whose accounts of heroic derring-do unfold upon the battlefield of Waterloo, the high seas of the Spanish Main, the sandy steppes of Persia, the streets of France at the height of the Reign of Terror, and other places where adventurers prove their honor with sword and steel.