It is a common  idea that the most laconic military
	 dispatch  was  that sent  by  Caesar  to the  Horse
	 Guards  at  Rome  containing the  three  remarkable
	 words  'Veni,  vidi,  vici'   (I  came,  I  saw,  I
	 conquered) and  perhaps until our own  day, no like
	 instance of brevity has been found. The dispatch of
	 Sir  Charles Napier  after the  capture of  Sind to
	 Lord Ellenborough, both  for brevity and truth, is,
	 however, far  beyond it. The  dispatch consisted of
	 one emphatic word: 'Peccavi'--I have Sind (sinned).