古德明英語軍事小故事：報 應 ？ (中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰爭。報 應 ？
in 1649, during the english civil war, oliver cromwell, leader of the parliamentarians, besieged drogheda. the town was defended by sir arthur aston, a royalist commander.
aston had only one leg. in 1645, he was thrown from his horse while trying to impress a group of ladies with his horsemanship. he broke his leg, which turned gangrenous and had to be amputated. his enemies claimed this as an act of divine vengeance for aston's action in ordering one of his own men to have his hand sawn off in punishment for some minor indiscretion. aston furiously maintained that he was as good on one leg as any man on two, but when cromwell's men sacked drogheda he had his brains knocked out by a soldier wielding his own wooden leg.
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