Modern generals

I didn’t think much of Hudson’s questions about Gandamack and Elphy at the time; if I had done I would have been as much amused as angry, for it was like a foreing language to me then. But I understand it now, although half our modern generals don’t. They think their men are a different species still – fortunately a lot of ‘em are, but not in the way the generals think.

Flashman, pp.211 - 12, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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Not your ordinary trooper

…he was well spoken enough, and, although he knew his place, was not at all your ordinary trooper, half-yokel, half-guttersnipe.

Flashman, p.202, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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Considering Sergeant Hudson

So I agreed, and found myself considering this Sergeant Hudson for the first time, for beyond noting that he was a steady man I had given him not much notice before. After all, why should one notice one’s men very much?

Flashman, p.202, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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