“There was another company whose commander was killed and a major took
charge. In the middle of the fighting he had lost so many men that a
French officer advised him to retreat. ‘Retreat hell!’ he cried: ‘I’m
going on as long as I and one man are left.’ It came near coming true,
for when he reached Lucy he had just three men left with him out of an
entire company.
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