A Quote by Tewodros II
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.
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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
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