My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War is a historical novel written by L.A. Meyer, published in 2008.
The story starts with Jacky back on sea after visiting her dear friend, Amy Trevelyne, following her adventures throughout the U.S. frontier.
Despite Jacky's skeptical attitude once aboard, she is realized as nothing but a young, innocent girl that was wrongly labeled a rogue by King George, despite Bliffil's accusation of her being known as "Tuppence a lay" on HMS Dolphin and a threat to every man board.
She soon meets up with two acquaintances, David "Davy" Jones and Joseph Jared; she also befriends the Dr. Sebastian and Captain Hudson of the Dauntless.
They sail to British waters but after the senior crew is struck with food poisoning, Jacky persuades Hudson to allow her to take command.
British Intelligence wants the French to believe that Jacky Faber is dead in order to send her back across the channel as a spy.
Jacky is to train as a ballerina, performing in a Parisian nightclub frequented by French officers, who often vie to "escort" the young girls home.
Jacky spends the next two weeks training in ballet, shopping for new clothing and gear, and visiting both St Paul's Cathedral and the Fletcher household, family of her betrothed.
Jacky joins the troupe "Le Petit Gamine" under the name Jacqueline Bouvier, and she is approached by her first target, one Field Marshal de Groote, nicknamed "The Goat" by the other girls.
After plying de Groote with cognac laced with Pparegoric and prying Napoleon's troop movements out of him, his wife arrives brandishing pistols.
Jacky, offended, decides to dress as a man, this time joining Napoleon's messengers, granting her ready access to military documents.
She and her soldiers, nicknamed the "Clod Hoppers" due to their rough, country origins meet Napoleon, presenting him with a captured Prussian flag.
Kirkus Reviews made note of the novel's "breakneck pace" as Jacky "either saves the day or slithers out of trouble thanks to her wits and larger-than-life heroics".
Further, they highlighted the novel's "amusing nomenclature, historical and cultural in-jokes and colorful locales", which they state "are strewn with abandon throughout the long and tireless narrative".