Well, I went and bought Sharpes Rifles yesterday (along with A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Papillon & The Mystery of the Dog Who Died in the night - went a bit mad in Ottaker). Read a good hundred pages. So far its seems like good ole swashbuckling fun. Nothing too highbrow, but entertaining nevertheless
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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