'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)

Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!

In Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she loves.

A doctor shoots a girl to save her from Indians and later finds her fiancé is his rival for another girl.

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.