Frases de Charles James Napier

Para el almirante de nombre similar, su contemporáneo en la Campaña Peninsular, ver Charles John NapierGeneral Sir Charles James Napier, GCB , fue un general del Imperio Británico y el Comandante en jefe del ejército de las Indias, notable por la conquista de la provincia de Sind, en lo que hoy es Pakistán.



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✵ 10. agosto 1782 – 29. agosto 1853
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Charles James Napier: Frases en inglés

“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