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“I make this request only so as not to lead men to the slaughterhouse. They have to be taught their right hand from their left.”
Source: Letter of Saint-George to war minister Pache, February 1793; Service historique de la Défense, Vincennes, Correspondance Armée du Nord, B19, février 1793; transcribed in Pierre Bardin, 'De la Légion de Saint George au 13ème régiment de chasseurs à cheval', Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe, art. 2019-24, p. 2 and n. 7
Context Pressed by the war minister over the delay in getting his Légion franche des Américains to the front, Saint-George refused to march untrained recruits into battle.
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