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You can keep your sword, for you fought proper. Like a proper soldier. Take your blade to paradise, and tell them you were killed by another proper soldier.

— Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

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Defeat the enemy's infantry and the cavalry and gunners had nowhere to hide.

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All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes.

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