‘And our
moujiks are, well, different from yours’. I wondered, even as I said it, if they were; remembering that hospital at Yalta, I doubted it. But I couldn’t help adding: ‘Would your
moujiks have
ridden into the battery at Balaclava?’
Flashman at the Charge,
p.148,
Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.Tags:
Flashman,
Flashman quotes,
Charge of the Light Brigade.
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