His hand slips only toward the end, where the sense of melodrama, rising like a flood, brims over into the ludicrous.

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Robin Brims, the British land war commander, briefed him on a plan, which foresees the consolidation of allied control over the city in a matter of days and then a British push north on Highway 6.

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