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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

Colonel Samuel Prescott

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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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