THE MEETING BETWEEN BENEDICT ARNOLD AND MAJOR ANDRÉ 66 THE CHEVALIER D’EON 83 LYDIA DARRAH AND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CRAIG 118 PRINCE VON BISMARCK 135 GENERAL LAFAYETTE 148 GENERAL NAPPER TANDY 170 CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE 200 MAJOR LE CARON (THOMAS BEACH) 206 BRIGADIER-GENERAL LAFAYETTE C. BAKER 243 MAJOR-GENERAL J. E. B. STUART 285 JOHN E. WILKIE 294 WILLIAM J. FLYNN 317 The World’s Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents I THE ALSATIAN SMUGGLER WHO HELPED NAPOLEON TO CAPTURE THE AUSTRIAN ARMY This is the story of a thrilling episode in the life of a man who has been called the Prince of Spies. His name was Charles Louis Schulmeister and he played a most invaluable part in building the fame of no less a person than Napoleon Bonaparte. What the greatest military genius of his time might have accomplished without the aid of his wonderfully effective secret service system must be left to the imagination. What he actually did with the assistance of Charles Louis Schulmeister and his associates is one of the most fascinating parts of the secret archives of France and Austria. First a word concerning the life and personality of this famous military spy. He was a native of an Alsatian village—New Freistell in the Grand Duchy of Baden, on the right bank of the Rhine. He was an adventurous boy and his early life was filled with hair-raising escapades. It was the most natural thing in the world for such a youth to develop into a smuggler and for years he followed that calling to the dismay of the authorities and to the advantage of his personal fortunes. Schulmeister was of medium build, brusque in his manner and movements, smooth-faced and with two ugly scars on his forehead, the result of bravery in battle. He had blue eyes, clear, penetrating and unwavering. He was quick to think and prompt to execute; shrewd, smart and full of courage and resolution. Also, Schulmeister was absolutely devoid of the sense of fear.