Two historical novels by Albert Payson Terhune, author of stories of Lad and other dogs. takes place during the War of 1812, where the reader is eyewitness, through the main character, of the conquest by the British of Washington DC. In the main characters meet Charles "Chinese" Gordon and later experience the horrors of the fall of Khartum. These two novels were originally serialized in 1907 and 1909.