Frasi di Charles James Napier

Sir Charles James Napier, membro dell'Ordine del Bagno , fu un generale dell'Impero britannico e Comandante in Capo dell'Esercito britannico in India, famoso per aver conquistato la Provincia del Sindh nell'attuale Pakistan. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Agosto 1782 – 29. Agosto 1853
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Charles James Napier: Frasi in inglese

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”

Napier, William. (1851) History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, London: Chapman and Hall p. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=d84BAAAAMAAJ&vq=suttee&dq=History%20of%20the%20Administration%20of%20Scinde&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false at books.google.com. Retrieved 11 October 2013

“Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you.”

After the Battle of Miani, where most of the Mirs surrendered. One leader held back and was told this by Napier.
Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 29

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