The meanest sweeper in our train would have been a fitter commander.
Flashman, p.176, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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Sunday, 1 June 2008
Doing his duty
If you had taken the greatest military geniuses of the ages, placed them in command of our army, and asked them to ruin it utterly as speedily as possible, they could not – I mean it seriously – have done it as surely and swiftly as he [Elphinstone] did. And he believed he was doing his duty.
The meanest sweeper in our train would have been a fitter commander.
Flashman, p.176, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
The meanest sweeper in our train would have been a fitter commander.
Flashman, p.176, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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