Drake and Napier
Pun fans claim that Sir Francis Drake reported the defeat of the Spanish Armada with a single word: “Cantharides” (an aphrodisiac; hence: “The Spanish fly”).
And when Sir Charles Napier took the Indian province of Sind in 1843, he supposedly sent a one-word report to the British War Office: “Peccavi” (Latin for “I have sinned”).
