“Arthur Wellesley had waited six years for this moment. He was twenty-nine years old and had begun to fear that he would never see battle, but now, at last, he would discover whether he and his regiment could fight, and so he filled his lungs to give the order that would start the slaughter.”

Narrator, p. 28
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

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