Rangers of Connaught! It is not my intention to expend any powder this evening. We'll do this business with the could iron!
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Address to the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) before the assault on Badajoz, 6 Apr. 1812. Quoted in "Reminiscences of a Subaltern", The Albion; or, British, Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette, New York, vol. 10, no. 42 (24 Mar. 1832), p. 3, col. 2