Talk:Battle of Malakoff

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Does anyone else feel that this article reads like a particularly exciting and popular history book, rather than an encyclopedia article, if I can make this distinction? Phrases like "under the fire of a thousand cannons" etc seem fairly rhetorical and less encyclopediac 122.57.65.138 (talk) 23:41, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree. And lots of sentences are not English really, like "There were, however, many reasons against so decided a course". Iiiiaaaa (talk) 03:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, old boy, but that's perfectly good English, although perhaps a little old fashioned.Scartboy (talk) 22:47, 12 November 2011 (UTC)