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Returning home he finds everything smashed and gone. He wanders through the land and comes upon a Frenchwoman returning to Quebec so he escorts her home. For a few years he acts as her bodyguard - and lover - until news comes from her parents in Orleans that revolution is sweeping through France and they are in danger. Casca and the woman travel to Orleans to rescue them but they are too late. When Casca kills those responsible he is sentenced to the guillotine but throws himself off a building to escape that fate. Assumed dead he is put amongst those ready for burial but at night he manages to recover and stagger away. He is then pressganged into the French army to fight the invading Prussians at Valmy (1792), then is part of the invasion force that overruns the Austrian Netherlands. He actually agrees with many of the revolutionary ideals as opposed to the autocratic rule of the monarchies, and soon begins to rise in the ranks. He is then sent south to join a new Army of Italy where a young general as just been appointed, a certain Napoleon Buonaparte.
Using his skills as a soldier, Casca climbs to sergeant and then back to private to hide his identity during the campaigns under Napoleon.
The great advance into Russia comes in 1812 and Casca is part of the Grande Armee. Protecting a Polish woman who is being hunted is a distraction through the bloody advance to Moscow, and then comes the terrible retreat through the winter back to Poland. Many comrades die on route because of the Russian army or weather. Casca does find the killer but is executed for murder himself in a sad twist of fate.
Before he is shot, he arranges for his body to be left in a church so he can easily escape.
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Finding an abandoned farm in Holland he makes a living there for a year or two. News of France's defeat in 1814 comes as no surprise but he is shocked when Napoleon makes a comeback and mobilizes the French. They head north into the Netherlands so Casca heads south and joins the British army under Wellington. At Quatre Bras they have an inconclusive battle but a few days later at Waterloo the British and Prussians defeat the French and send Napoleon into exile.
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With the conflicts in Europe finished, Casca returns to find the farm occupied by relatives of its proper owner, so he hunts around for a job. He takes the odd job here and there but is killing time, until news arrives of the Greek uprising against the Turks. He heads south and joins the Greek movement, using guerrilla tactics. Casca's knowledge of war and the Greek language soon puts him in charge of a district and they are part of the final Greek victory in capturing Missolonghi (1829).
With independance Casca leaves and finds himself in North Africa. France is seeking good soldiers to fight the Arabs so Casca joins up and in the brutal war joins a new organisation - the French Foreign Legion. After a short while he leaves after killing his sadistic sergeant.
