It may be a stretch, but there is a series of time-travel novels by Simon Hawke, where each one takes a classic novel and assumes that it accurately tells history. Then the story applies a time-wars scenario on top of the "story". Source books include the prisoner of Zenda, The Three Musketeers, Gunga Din, 20000 Leagues under the Sea, etc. This meets *my* definition of swashbuckling.
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