“"You had no choice, sir." "There's always a choice."”

— Bernard Cornwell

Lieutenant Robert Knowles and Captain Richard Sharpe on the destruction of Almieda's magazine, p. 239
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Gold (1981)

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