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3 unusual facts about George MacDonald Fraser


Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

In George MacDonald Fraser's 1982 novel, Flashman and the Redskins, the anti-hero Flashman is present at the destruction of Bents' Fort.

Henri Blowitz

Blowitz appears as a character in the novella "The Road to Charing Cross" in Flashman and the Tiger (1999) by George MacDonald Fraser.

Signpost Corner

George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series of books, lived on the Isle of Man and titled his 2002 autobiographical memoir of his experiences as a Hollywood scriptwriter, "The Light's on at Signpost".


Ranavalona I

A fictionalized account of Ranavalona and her court appears in the novel Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser.

Tom Molineaux

A fictionalised account of Molineaux's boxing career appears in Black Ajax, by George MacDonald Fraser.


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