Challenge

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Deviating from the usual procedure, this challenge will run until 31 October 2011.

Topic: "Sounds like a plan!"

Sorry for the recent challenge-less-ness, moving stress and all...

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“I passed though your position with a dispatch to General Hill. Your works almost stopped me.” It wasn’t an accusation. They’d been meant to keep out the French after all.

“It was only a temporary command and didn’t end well,” he reminded Harry calmly as if it didn’t matter.

It did, though. He’d built up a fine reputation and good relationships with the officers only to see his brigade slaughtered at Albuera. It hadn’t been his fault, but he’d still been surprised when this misfortune, rather than send him home in disgrace, had landed him the command of the 52nd regiment, the hand-picked men of his dead mentor General Moore. Nevertheless the memory of that battle remained painful.

“But while I do have it in my power, I mean to do good by you and your young wife,” he told Harry shaking off the painful thoughts. “If you’re still by my side at the end of the next battle, I’ll recommend you for promotion.”

That ought to stop Harry from making off with the brigade at any rate and Colborne didn’t plan on being easy to keep up with. He’d show the little daredevil sportsman a challenge he couldn’t resist - and he’d win. That should impress Harry enough to ensure his loyalty and that of the brigade.

Besides, Harry and Juana really could use the money a promotion to Mayor would bring. Colborne himself would never have married on a Captain’s income and he’d always been much more cautious with his money than happy-go-lucky Harry Smith.

Yes, it was an all around good plan.

To be continued? (depending on how well I can make it fit into future challenges)

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From: Kirby Mitchell, Assassin (bbkirby)
To: ImmortalJan (3 of 4)
Didn't know you had a penchant for military history, Fox! I'll try to come up with something to actually challenge that ;)

From: ImmortalJan
To: Kirby Mitchell, Assassin (bbkirby)
Blame Georgette Heyer. I read An Infamous Army and then The Spanish Bride and got curious how close to its sources it actually was (and then fell in love with Colborne ...)

Very curious to see what an actual historian can do!