Leaving India

“…I’d not say that till I was riding the gridiron again.”*


*Aboard an East Indiaman. The reference is to the Company’s flag.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.159, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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A little Russian creek

Just a little Russian creek, and today in any English parish church you may see its name on stone memorials, on old tattered flags in cathedrals, in the metalwork of badges, and on nameplates of grimy black streets besides the factories. Alma.

Flashman at the Charge, p.63, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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A sight of omen

…they were a sight of omen to me, for the last time I’d seen them they’d been standing back to back in the bloodied snow of Gandamack, with the Ghazi knives whittling ’em down, and Souter with the flag wrapped around his belly. I never see those 44th facings but I think of the army of Afghanistan dying in the ice-hills, and shudder.

Flashman at the Charge, p.60, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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