Shout Out / The General Series

• Raj is called "the King of Spades" as was Robert E. Lee, and his nickname of 'Messer Raj' is very similar to Lee's "Marse Robert".
• Shakespeare's Henry V is cribbed on more than one occasion, complete with lampshading: Raj asks Bartin Foley where he got the words for that speech, and Bartin replies that it's from a surviving fragment of a "pre-Fall" drama.
• Raj utters a variant of Cromwell's famous before-battle prayer. "Oh Spirit of Man of the Stars, you know how busy I must be this day. Do not forget me, even if I forget You."
• Suzette quotes Stonewall Jackson. "No, I don't want them to be brave. Kill them all."
• The lines: "He fears his fate too much or his desserts are small/ who will not put it to the touch to win or lose it all", originally spoken by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650), are used as a toast.
• And then there's all the Rudyard Kipling...pick a poem, any poem, and odds are it's cribbed from The Barrack-Room Ballads.
• ...and one to Bill Mauldin. In 'The Steel', Raj's soldiers are trudging through the muddy landscape of the Brigade's lands, heading for Old Residence, and one asks, "What's the name of this river?" On being told it's the Wolturno, he replies "Ever fukkin' river in dis country is named Wolturno."
• The second sequel series makes two mentions of an evidently frog-like native creature ... called a kermitoid.
• One of the characters mentions the story of an incorruptible cop who, after being framed and thrown into a prison with loads of convicts who hated him, used Rorshach's line: "I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me."
• The Halvaardi seem to like the Spartans: "-so the next tax collector who asks for 'earth and water'...gets thrown down a well to find plenty of both".
• In The Heretic and The Savior, Center makes several references to aspects of future-prediction calculations as 'Seldonian'.

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