Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> At 11:24 PM 1/15/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >Mountsuart Elphinstone, an employee of the East India Company wrote a
> >sympathetic view of the Afghan tribespeople in 1809 entitled "An
> >Account of the Kingdom of Caubul."
>
> Not to be confused with the William Elphinstone who lost his entire
> army in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
>
> It's parallels like these which worry me in Roderick's Engiziland
> campaign.
Sir Harry Flashman's first volume of his memoirs, The Flashman Papers,
covers this very military debacle. Let's hope that someone as noble, as
heroic, and patriotic is present when the Lunars need him.
(Anybody want to take a stab at HeroQuest stats for Flashy?)
Guy (Hoyle)