The hero of this story, Ralph Conway, has many varied and exciting adventures. He enters the British army, and after some rough service in Ireland takes part in the Waterloo campaign.. Frank Algernon Stewart (BRITISH, 1877-1945) Illustrator. George Alfred Henty, better known as G.A. Henty, began his storytelling career with his own children. After dinner, he would spend and hour or two in telling them a story that would continue the next day. Some stories took weeks A friend was present one day and watched the spell-bound reaction of his children suggesting Henty write down his stories so...