"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
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Dinna fire till ye see the whites o' their e'en! — Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, as instructions to the Royal Scots Fusiliers at the Battle of Dettingen (27 June 1743), in The Agnews of Lochnaw : A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway (1864) by Andrew Agnew, Ch. 33 : The twelfth Hereditary Sheriff, p. 543
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William Prescott
William Prescott (February 20, 1726 – October 13, 1795) was an American colonel in the American Revolutionary War who commanded the rebel forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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