The Great Shadow popular influence on many writers towards the end of the 19th century. Conan Doyle also developed a series of short stories entitled Brigadier Gerard. The series featured Etienne Gerard, a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Other writings by Conan Doyle involving the Napoleonic Era include Adventures of Gerard and Uncle Bernac. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Conan Doyle credit his mother, Mary Doyle, who had a passion for books and he describes her as a master storyteller. He says in his biography that,""In my early childhood, as far
Gerard of Csanád (encompassing present-day Banat in Serbia, Romania and Hungary) around 1030. Benedictine monks who could speak Hungarian helped him to preach among the local inhabitants. Most information of Gerard was not preserved in impartial sources, but in his hagiographies. The "Short Life of Saint Gerard", which was composed around 1100, is an abridgement of an earlier biography. The earlier biography did not survive. The "Short Life" primarily presents Gerard as a bishop. The majority of scholars regard the "Short Life" the most reliable source of Gerard's life. The "Long Life of Saint Gerard" is a compilation of multiple sources, including the