And then the foot chasseurs of the Guard, old soldiers, were told to take the battery; and there was nothing fine about their advance--no column, no shouting, nobody killed--just a few scattered lines of tirailleurs and pelotons of support; but in ten minutes the guns were silenced, and the Spanish gunners cut to pieces.
War must be learned, my young friend, just the same as the farming of sheep." "Pooh!" said I, not to be out-crowed by a foreigner.

"If we had thirty thousand men on the line of the hill yonder, you would come to be very glad that you had your boats behind you." "On the line of the hill ?" said he, with a flash of his eyes along the ridge.

"Yes, if your man knew his business he would have his left about your house, his centre on Corriemuir, and his right over near the doctor's house, with his tirailleurs pushed out thickly in front.
His horse, of course, would try to cut us up as we deployed on the beach.

But once let us form, and we should soon know what to do.
There's the weak point, there at the gap.

I would sweep it with my guns, then roll in my cavalry, push the infantry on in grand columns, and that wing would find itself up in the air.