“Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.”

— Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Le Roi d'Yvetot. Translation by Thackeray, The King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 725.

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“Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.”