Charles James Napier
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Sir Charles James Napier (10 August, 1782 – 29 August, 1853) was a British general and Commander-in-Chief in India. The city of Napier, New Zealand, is named after him. He is famous for conquering the Sindh province now in present-day Pakistan.
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- You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
- S. M. Stirling, Island in the Sea of Time. New York: Penguin (1998); pg. 526
- The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
- Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 27-31
- The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
- Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 27-31
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- Peccavi
- Latin for "I have sinned", a pun on "I have (captured) Scinde".
- Brilliant as the victories had been, Napier had to face criticism from enemies and friends alike. The new English humor magazine, Punch, barely a year old, published a cartoon of Napier striding through the carnage of the battlefield with the caption "Peccavi" — "I have sinned", as indeed he had. [1]
