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Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:38 am
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Oooh... I'd love to (after an Afghan War comic strip, that is)... but I'm already working a comic strip to take up all my days this year!

Back on track - did anyone see that little comic called 'Zu ...

Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:02 am
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Only drawback is that you have to share the royalties with the illustrator!

As part of my day job involves [url=http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/webcomic/stripIndex.php]drawing comic strip ...

Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:28 pm
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Nuttall was in the Mutiny - placed in command of detachments of police in the Deccan and Concan against Bheel rebels, and took an active part in the relief of Peint, and present at the engagements of ...

Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:30 pm
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I think everyone on this board can appreciate how difficult it is to write the story of a battle and look beyond dry tactical facts. You managed to entwine the human element very naturally, and also e ...

Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:42 pm
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Mike - just read your article in BBC History magazine. Well done, excellent - should raise its profile a little!

Many thanks for a good read.

Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:40 pm
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Maiwand has only been 'forgotten' as in it's been out of the general public consciousness for a long time, only occasionally surfacing. It is different from the Zulu War - Rorke's Drift especially - w ...

Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:05 am
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Sorry, in my last post I attributed your article to The Times...
No worries at all, Michael! The article has been copied around quite a bit as information on Malalai was scare when I wrote it. And ma ...

Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:24 am
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People are interested in Maiwand again today because the British are back in the Helmand. The other two routes people usually discover it for themselves is through either Sherlock Holmes (Dr. Watson w ...

Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:35 pm
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I wrote a short article on Malalai a while ago - it's a page that gets quite a bit of interest from Afghan nationals.

http://www.angloafghanwar.info/biography/malalai.php

Looking forward to your ...

Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:58 am
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True - just as good a story. There's me getting reality and fantasy mixed up... again!

http://www.shakiracaine.com/

Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:32 pm
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The Man Who Would Be King is one of my all-time favourites. John Huston originally wanted Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable as his leads. When they died (Bogart in 1957, Gable in 1960) the project slowe ...

Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:20 pm
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Sorry, Martin, nothing on Grenadier Guards.

On Waller Ashe's Afghan War book there was a fair amount of controversy. Indeed, Lepel Griffin, the political officer at Kabul, was very critical of Ashe ...

Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:29 pm
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Just an update...

William Wheaton Chard (Times obit. 17 Sep 1890)
b.24 Dec 1841
d.12 Sep 1890, Anderton, Cornwall
Major 1881, Lt.-Col. Sep 1885.

and some more on George Villiers (Times obit. ...

Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:27 am
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What I don't quite understand is that the same bidder has jacked the price
up from �12 to �61 on his own and then to �80 when someone else offered
�78. Odd.

It looks like that because the bids a ...

Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:06 pm
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Thank you very much for your help, Martin, much appreciated.
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