Talk:Charles James Napier

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Regarding this quote; "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

Where and when is he supposed to have made it? His time in the subcontinent was spent mostly in the west, and what is now Pakistan, as far as I can make out from his biography. It is not a region where sati is known in recent historic times, being mostly Muslim. Imc 18:21, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Whoever said it deserves +5 to awesome. 67.34.55.68

needs to include his time as governor of Kefalonia/Kefallinia/Cephalonia, Greece - MaikKef 01:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peccavi

It seems that Napier did not utter the famous line. It was a submission to Punch more than a year after the event, made up by Caroline Winkworth, a teenage schoolgirl. --Jumbo 07:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)