At least the annexation of Sind survives faintly in our memories, if only for the joke that Punch made about it, imagining that Napier had sent a one-word message 'Peccavi' - I have sinned. Posterity, literal-minded as ever, assumed that Napier really had sent such a message.
F. Mount, The tears of the Rajas (2015), 340
This is the most disappointing thing I have discovered for a very long time.
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