“I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more.”
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“Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”
Address to US forces after the of Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War (September 1847) as quoted in The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott (1861) by Orville James Victor, p. 106.
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