Showing posts with label mutiny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mutiny. Show all posts
Monday, 21 November 2011
A quiet word
…God knows what he said to them, privatim et seriatim*, over the next two days, but it dam’ near caused a mutiny.
*Apparently, medieval Latin, privately and one after another [Speedicut].
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.255, Harper Collins, 1995.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, mutiny.
Friday, 23 May 2008
Fighting Bob
Even under the command of General Sale – the tall, handsome ‘Fighting Bob’ who used to invite his men to shoot him when they felt mutinous – clearing the passes was a slow, costly process.
Flashman, p.112, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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