Sir Percy Hits Back Sir Percy Hits Back Sir Percy Hits Back is (chronologically) the ninth book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. It was first published in 1927. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also published under the title "La Vengeance du Mouron Rouge". For young and pretty Fleurette the revolution seems far away until an aristocratic neighbouring family is threatened. The dangers become all too real, and she is accused of being a traitor. Can her father save her? Fleurette's father is Armand Chauvelin. The villainous agent is forced to ask his arch-enemy, the
Henry Percy (Hotspur) future King Henry V, who was a youth of 16 at the date of the Battle of Shrewsbury. The name of one of England's football clubs, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., acknowledges Henry Percy, whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood of the club's first ground in the Tottenham Marshes. A statue of Henry Percy was unveiled in Alnwick by the Duke of Northumberland in 2010. Henry Percy (Hotspur) Sir Henry Percy KG (20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403), commonly known as Sir Harry Hotspur, or simply Hotspur, was a late-medieval English nobleman. He was a significant captain during the Anglo-Scottish