Of course, reading it now, and thinking about it, you realise that the forces involved would have been totally inadequate for the task. The idea of a couple of division marching to and then through London, which is a pretty big place, and taking the centre of government is pretty far fetched. And then they detach a force to take out Woolwich Arsenal, who, it seems, is the sole provider of ammunition, and no reserve stocks to be had?
By the time they had marched through the suburbs, half of them would have disappeared into houses of ill repute, pubs, gambling dens and drug holes, Womans Institute tea parlours or pounced upon by various religious zealots and dragged off to sing hymns.
By Jove, it won't do sir! dash it all.
“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'