"RETREAT! HELL NO WE JUST GOT HERE"
This was the reply given by Colonel (later Brigadier General) Manus McCloskey of the 12th Field Artillery, 2nd Division, when a French officer remonstrated with him: "Fini la guerre! (The war is finished). It is impossible to remain here; surely you are going to retreat."
 


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