fearful stabs

But General Stewart ordered his men forward in square,
All of them on foot, ready to die and to dare;
And he forced the enemy to engage in the fray,
But in a short time they were glad to run away.

But not before they penetrated through the British square,
Which was a critical moment to the British, I declare,
Owing to the great number of the Arabs,
Who rushed against their bayonets and received fearful stabs.

Well I never knew McGonagall did battle poetry and vaguely topical battle poetry at that. I am duly inspired:

So the French all went to Mali on the orders of Monseur Le President Hollande

To chase away the Islamists or at least that was the stated plan

And Mr Cameron provided a plane for them as all the world does know

And they filled it up with legionnaires but sadly it refused to go

 The tricky thing with doing MacGonagall parodies is making sure that the lines don’t accidentally scan.

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[Alex]

Meanwhile, a Norwegian death metal band seems to have taken hostages: a spokesperson for the "Battalion of Blood", the militant group holding the hostages..

[Leonard Hatred]

Now now; Norway is really more of a black metal kind of a country. Sweden, however!