Friday, 21 August 2009

The battery at Balaclava



‘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.




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