Lady Sale was possibly the only Brit to come out of the first Afghan war with her reputation enhanced. She arrived with an unmarried daughter, seeds from her Agra garden and a grand piano. She survived the retreat from Kabul, with a musket ball in her shoulder and in due course led a jailbreak of her fellow hostages. Her tombstone reads: "Here lies all that could die of Lady Sale."
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
A Great Epitaph for Lady Sale
Via The Best Defense, a 10 best list of books on Afghanistan . The entry for Lady Sale's book says:
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