Musket Girls! ~Tensei Sanbou to Senretsu Otome-tachi~ - Vol. 2 Ch. 7 - The Grim Reaper Staff Officer's Gamble

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I think him drinking tea while being fired on by cannons is a reference to Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, who ate a meal at a battlefield at the Siege of Oudenaarde. When a cannonball killed some of the people with him, he just had the table reset and kept on eating, to show that he was completely unperturbed by death and the enemy. I know some historians point to it as exemplifying the change in how the perception of bravery and glory on the battlefield changed from being the guy in front waving around a sword, to being the commander overlooking a battlefield observing through a telescope, snapping it shut, and giving out orders in quick succession to his officers who move an army.
 
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Daaaaamn... bro went straight Von Weinkleried with it.

That is an NCO who understood the assignment.

(I would say "insh'allah," or akbar, but there weren't any women and children, so that's not the right phrase)
 

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