She turned on the waterworks when we told her the old man was dead, but she was asking questions about the will soon enough.

Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.

And for now to have a policy where those fine Americans can only serve if they lie about who they are is a discredit to the American people. It is a discredit to their service and their opportunity. It is a discredit to people who have died in service.

We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.