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The nature of jokes is that there is at least some truth to them. And some nails the truth dead center. They are used to tell things usually not how it is told. Like this one. All the euphemisms are told instead of theft, robbery, plunder, and looting.
Is that campaign when from a 1000 bri'sh soldiers there was one wounded due to fell over a tree trunk and broke his leg?