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Offline sukhe_bator

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Re: Pathans and artillery
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2020, 06:35:04 PM »
And judging by the likes of Hobson Jobson and the widespread respelling of modern Indian placenames the British have been getting it wrong for centuries! I'm sure the locals nodded sagely and politely and then when the English had left muttered something along the lines of "bloody firanghis!"
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