Ten year old Pete follows an elf-like being into a forest where he is rescued from a monster. Then he uncovers an alien spy. This is what ten year old boys imagine themselves as doing.
Even at age ten, he has been taught to consider everything twice and to think it through for himself - a sign that Terrestrial education is considerably advanced. I once led a school class in a historical "sources" exercise. They had to read four passages and answer the question: Why was the English fleet defeated? The first passage was a Spanish captain boasting of his men's superior seamanship whereas the remaining passages documented that the English ships were scandalously unprepared. One pupil thought that the first passage gave him the answer so that it was unnecessary to read the remaining passages. I asked him, "If pupils from your school, Central, got in a fight with pupils from Our Lady's, would you accept the Our Lady's pupils' account of the fight?" He replied, "No!" I then pointed out that that was what he was doing here.
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Kaor, Paul!
I immediately thought of the Cartagena Campaign of 1741, during the War of Jenkins' Ear, as the catastrophic British defeat mentioned. The British seemed to have made almost every possible mistake there! Which allowed a far smaller Spanish force commanded by Don Blas de Lezo, an able and resolute admiral, to defeat them.
Ad astra! Sean
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