Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25389622-20141101150445/@comment-25389622-20150111154748

6. Yeah, the dire situation and just the shock of it all would make them follow any line more or less offered to them. Hence my point about hindsight. I'm not saying that sadism didn't play a role, but he must have been also smiling at how close he was. I'll give it a quick look over just to make sure it reads OK, just to be sure.

8. OK. As I say, I'll gie it another look over just to make sure that it is all consistent.

9. A Battalion is 300 - 1,500 men or more. He had max ten. So technically, battalion isn't correct. A troop is simply a group of men. I kind of see what you're saying. I won't press the issue.

"Rearranging based on publication date + I think it's obvious + unneeded comma." What's obvious?