"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people i…"

"Even the majority of authoritarian regimes were quite content to persecute internal enemies and bicker with their nei…"

"Innes Munro, an eyewitness and a captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders, records the horr…"

"Kirmani proudly recounts the manner in which Tanjore was ravaged by the forces of Tipu: Prince Tippoo with seven thou…"

"Edmund Burke, the statesman and orator in England, recounts: He [Haidar] became at length so confident of his force, …"

"Robson mentions the plunder of Hindu temples in Tanjore: Hyder entered the Tanjore country, plundering and burning ev…"

"Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg! Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!"

"Hast thou not seen my horsemen charge the foe, Shot through the arms, cut overthwart the hands, Dying their lances wi…"

"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly h…"

"Then next, the way to fortify your men; In champion grounds what figure serves you best, For which the quinque-angle …"