This is not only a general who blunders, but one who leaves the field of battle, laden with the wealth of the dying, having fired not a single shot in anger.
The blundering generals leading Negrodom to death. Part I: Afua Hirsch
Note to Negrodom, the Dutch are perverse. What is it that Europeans get from painting their faces black, that black people just don’t get?
A miasma of colonial vestiges hangs over all Amsterdam as the black-faced whites descend upon the city; resurrecting the sorrowful days of colonial Orange.
