19 Feb
2001
19 Feb
'01
8:39 p.m.
Neil said [re Zulu combatants]:
Despite being braver, better drilled and better motivated (take the legendary
story
where Cetsewayo marched a unit of troops off a cliff, then invited the British commander to match that).
Not my idea of motivation--the OTHER side is supposed to kill your soldiers. I can easily imagine Blake giving that order. I just can't imagine a rush to obey it.
-(Y)