“I asked him what he had thought when the 21st Lancers had gone head­long into a gul­ly filled with quite unex­pect­ed and extreme­ly bad-tem­pered Dervish­es. He said, ‘It was very stim­u­lat­ing, but I did think: Sup­pose there is a spoil-sport in the hole with a machine gun?'” —Antho­ny Mon­tague Browne. The Bat­tle of Omdur­man, 2 Sep­tem­ber 1898. Oil on can­vas by William Barnes Wollen, 1857-1936. (Walk­er Art Gallery, Wiki­me­dia Commons)