Slim: Unofficial History Douglas John
Slim: Unofficial History Douglas John Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those…
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Slim: Unofficial History Douglas John
Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village.
The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's unusually poor shooting. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to