Dinna fire till ye see the whites o' their e'en!
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Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, as instructions to the Royal Scots Fusiliers at the Battle of Dettingen (27 June 1743), in The Agnews of Lochnaw : A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (1864) by Andrew Agnew, Ch. 33 : The twelfth Hereditary Sheriff, p. 543William Prescott
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We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.
Samuel Pepys
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
William Prescott
Men, you are all marksmen — don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
William Prescott
By push of bayonets — no firing till you see the whites of their eyes!
William Prescott
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.Edith Sitwell
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