Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

<font color="red"><i>The officers will take all proper opportunities to inculcate in the mens' minds a reliance on the bayonet; men of their bodily strength and even a coward may be their match in firing. But the bayonet in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.</i></font id="red">
Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, General Orders, 20, June 1777

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<font color="red"><i>Rangers of Connaught! It is not my intention to expend any powder this evening. We'll do this business with Cold Steel.</i></font id="red">
General Sir Thomas Picton, 6 April 1812 to the 88th Foot before the assault on Badajoz.


I Irresistably Remain,