"A simple leaden bullet and a few grains of powder are sufficient in the shortest limit of time to blast and ruin all …"

"An eyewitness of these incidents in Srirangapatna in April 1799, Col Bayly, records in his diary: The rockets and mus…"

"The iron-cased rockets of Mysore alarmed the British. That this was something new that they were encountering becomes…"

"After having razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars, by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic librar…"

"And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimita…"

"Arrasado el jardín, profanados los cálices y las aras, entraron a caballo los hunos en la biblioteca monástica y romp…"

"Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me…"

"We now retreated towards the sea, being able to carry but few of our wounded with us; those remaining were barbarousl…"

"The disembarkation was a fucking shambles and we only took Alexandria as quick as we did to get a fucking drink somew…"

"Five scimitars, wi’ murder crusted;"