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Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Battle of Carball in the Knee High Snow
Nearly 20,000 british and indians set off from carball in the knee high snow. The road was covered with awfully mangled bodies, all naked. It required care to guide my horse so as not to tread upon the bodies. Lady sale's son in law was not so lucky. Shot in the stomach, he died. After the ambush came blizzard the convoy made just one mile's progress in a day. Living and dead were indistinguishable, motionless in the frozen waste. A rare moment of complete colonial humiliation.
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