Four Flags
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I always knew I, Baron Ernst Christoph Ludwig von Rosenberg had one blue eye and one amber one. At the age of ten or so I realized it had special meaning, perhaps an evil one.
“Wall-eyed circus freak.” My brothers called me.
However, my Tante Tina (Aunt Ernestina), my father’s sister, who shared my name and who had all but raised me, said, “Your eyes mark you as a ‘Seer,’ a ‘Visionary,’ a ‘Prophet,’” when I went crying to her. “After all, you are the seventh child. That has to mean something,” she’d always reminded me. She had read more books than the rest of the family put together, more than anyone else in all of Estland (
She told me many times, “You were born at the very beginning of a brand new Century, the Nineteenth Century. Just think, the 1800’s, where every thing is possible!”
Also, since I really was the seventh child it had to mean something. My father, THE BARON, (I always capitalized and emboldened his name because of his loudness and pompous ways) always called me ‘Gypsy!’, ‘Little Bastard!’ or ‘Damn Changeling!’
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In 1812, Young Baron, Ernst Christopher Ludwig von Rosenberg, at the early age of twelve left home, school, and country to experience Napoleon’s invasion of Russia as a drummer. He meets Yakov, a young Gypsy and Polar Bear, an old Russian Sergeant. He is at the battle of Borodino and watches the burning of
When he and Yak return to
In 1820, disillusioned by war and politics, they set out for
They soon become involved with Iturbide, a Mexican revolutionary who is soon to be crowned the first Emperor of Mexico. He is impressed with their experiences in the Prussian military and appoints them as officers in his army. Iturbide’s government falls. He is exiled and later shot by a firing squad. Before Ernst can escape
About the Author
Ray von Rosenberg is a native Texan, who attended
Bored with retirement he set out to write this novel, based on his East Prussian ancestors and his love for historical research and genealogy.
He is 77 years old, has a black cat named Velvet, is a life long Democrat, reads the New York Times every day, and is too old to travel much any more.