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Updated: May 15, 2025

Stories and rumors grew thicker of British preparations, of Indian approaches, of invasion's red track being cleared up to the very gates of the Valley. And no man saw how the ruin was to be averted. It was in the second week of July, at almost the darkest hour in that gloomy first part of 1777, that a singular link in the chain of my story was forged.

Harold Frederic - In the Valley

There'd been nothing to it the prophecies weren't precognition, they were shrewd inferences, and the miracles weren't psychokinesis, they were sleight-of-hand. She found herself asking: "What barbarian invasion's this?" "Oh, Central Asian nomadic people, the Croutha," Tortha Karf told her.

H. Beam Piper - Time Crime