“This was the might of France, the pride of France, the tactic of the world's first conscript army, and this column, Clausel's counter-attack, ignored cold mathematical logic. It was not defeated by the line.”

— Bernard Cornwell

Narrator, p. 253
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

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