“Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.”

—  Napoleon I of France

As quoted in The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966) by Robert Heinl, Jr.
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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

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