[MUDDOG]

Napoleon’s “whiff of grapeshot” did the trick a few years later.

[Sherman Logan]

True, but that was after a lot of water had flowed under the revolutionary bridge. Sometimes things just have to run their course.

For instance, the Sunni tribes weren’t ready to work with us to fight AQ until they’d had a taste of what they were really like.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently the phrase "a whiff of grapeshot" was invented by Thomas Carlyle when he wrote his account of the incident when a popular uprising in Paris was put down by force (Napoleon played a major role in that), not by Napoleon at the time.

When the Bastille fell, Lafayette had the key sent to George Washington. It is said to be still kept at Mount Vernon.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently the phrase "a whiff of grapeshot" was invented by Thomas Carlyle when he wrote his account of the incident when a popular uprising in Paris was put down by force (Napoleon played a major role in that), not by Napoleon at the time.

When the Bastille fell, Lafayette had the key sent to George Washington. It is said to be still kept at Mount Vernon.