Lexicon:Messieurs les Anglais; tirez les premiers

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Citation: Messieurs les Anglais; tirez les premiers
Language: French
References: The Hundred Days, page 128
Meaning: You English gentlemen fire the first [shots]

Notes:


As said by General d'Anterroche to General Hay at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745.

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