Desc: H. Beam Piper's He Walked Around the Horses: Directed by Claude Miles. With Jeff Coatney, David Fultz, Stan Harrington, Alexander Leeb. On November 25, 1809, a British diplomat named Benjamin Bathurst disappears while staying at an inn in Perleberg, Prussia. He finds himself in a parallel universe in which the American Revolution and French Revolution were both failures and there were no Napoleonic Wars.