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In {{NW}}, Sub-Lieutenant Harrap is the extremely unlucky, extremely junior, officer despatched first to the Palace to inform [[Winder]] that there has been no luck in smashing the Republic of Treacle Mine Road. On the not-long-delayed death of Winder, his senior officers gleefully despatch him on another bum assignment: to go out and negotiate with the rebels following one final action which has resulted in the deaths of several of them, including [[Horace Nancyball]].

As Major [[Clive Mountjoy-Standish]] and Captain [[Tom Wrangle]] explicitly wanted a junior officer for this duty who "has been a bit slack lately", the luckless Harrap must have been more than noticeably remiss in his duties... Harrap brings the news to [[Samuel Vimes]] that Winder is dead and Snapcase has been elected as Patrician, thus ending the civil war and bringing the first news of an amnesty for the rebels.

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The social structure and military rank system of [[Ankh-Morpork]] is very closely based on that prevailing in Great Britain. For instance, [[John Keel]] is a sergeant-at-arms - a uniquely British military rank - rather than its American equivalent of Top Sergeant (the one we know from ''Sergeant Bilko'', where the rank badge is a diamond shape with upward and downward pointing chevrons).
In the British military rank system, a Sub-Lieutenant is the second-lowest form of commissioned rank, not in the Army but in the Royal Navy. So a lone sailor so far from a ship must have been luckless, friendless, and fair game for all the dirty work going...

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