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PupsOfWar posted:one issue with burnes is ive never been able to figure out whether him being a turbo horndog is real or apocryphal “After talking in his campaign history about the “athletic amusements of our people” in Kabul, Sir John Kaye with great regret turned to a distasteful subject, noting that “there are truths which must be spoken.” Things were going on in some of those residences, Sir John said, that involved “temptations which are most difficult to withstand, [and] were not withstood by our English officers.” The women of Kabul, he said, finally getting to the point, were exceedingly attractive, and the inmates of the Mohammedan zenanas—women’s quarters—“ were not unwilling to visit the quarters of the Christian stranger.” The scandal, he said, was “open, undisguised, notorious,” and Sir Alexander Burnes was one of the chief culprits. The cuckolded Afghan tribesmen, Kaye said, were outraged, and they had begun plotting revenge.” -Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them by James M. Perry No idea how reliable a source it is but it’s a fun read at least.
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Krazyface posted:...what's your view on Abraham Lincoln? I like how Lincoln instantly sees through Flash’s bullshit
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Never was the thread title more accurate then that chapter. On a completely unrelated note I have to wonder if Fraiser borrowed a bit of Andrew Carnegie for Flash’s father-in-law : both wealthy Scottish factory owners terrified of the poor.
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