Re: Digest Number 1688

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:26:11 +1200


At 05:23 PM 5/9/04 -0400, you wrote:

>Isn't "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis..." (or something very
>similar) the actual
>last words of a general?

No. General Sedgwick did utter these words shortly before his death but his actual last words were the far less memorable "all right, my man; go to your place".

http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm

ObGlorantha: I wonder what Alakoring's last words were....

--Peter Metcalfe

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