Harry
Flashman tells his great-niece Selina the story of a man who lost a
rifle in Paris and tripped over it in West Africa twenty years later. The
man who lost the rifle is Captain Battreau from P. C. Wren’s story
“No. 187017,” included in the collection
Flawed Blades.
“No. 187017” and Wren’s other books and stories involving the
French Foreign Legion are interconnected, including
Beau Geste,
which Philip José Farmer referenced in
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
The main events of Fraser’s novel take place in 1845–1846,
but the framing sequences, which refer to Flashman telling Battreau’s
story to Selina, were written by Flashman after 1894 and before 1902.
That's interesting. I read this book a long time ago, but I wasn't aware there was a crossover in it. (I haven't read anything by Wren.)
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