It ain't the kind of problem you meet every day. I doubt if it's ever been posed at Staff College ... "Now then, Mr. Flashman, you command an army fifty thousand strong, with heavy guns, well supplied, their lines of communication protected by an excellent river. Against you is a force of only ten thousand, with light guns, exhausted after a week's forced marching, short of food and fodder and damned near dying of thirst. Now then, sir, answer directly, no hedging - how do you lose, hey? Come, come, you've just given excellent reasons for not taking a town that's lying at your mercy! This should be child's play to a man with your God-given gift of catastrophe! Well, sir?"
(from Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser)
6½*/10. The complete review is here.
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