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Originally Posted by Trip
I was talking about the Battle of New Orleans. It was the British regulars there
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It was British regulars (with a lot of veterans of the Napoleonic wars) that burned down Washington, too. Not that it would have made it any less stupid if we had let the war, which we started, end there.
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This was no time for half measures. He was a captain, godsdammit. An officer.
Things like this didn't present a problem for an officer. Officers had a tried and
tested way of solving problems like this. It was called a sergeant.
-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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