Gentlemen of the French guard,fire first !

[Vergennes]

The eighteenth-century punctiliousness over fine points of the military game may be illustrated by the famous legend of the encounter between the English Guards and the French Guards at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession. When the Red Line and the White Line had approached one another to within point-blank range, an English officer is said to have stepped forward from the ranks, made his bow to the enemy, and cried: “Gentlemen of the French Guard, fire first!”

The gentlemen of the French guards would have been shocked to do anything so rude,and Count d'Auteroche replies "Fire gentlemen,the French guard never fire first!".

The British guard finally fired first.

Colonels of the French Guards and British Guards politely discussing who should fire first at the battle of Fontenoy (1745).

@Blue Marlin @Nilgiri @waz @Kaptaan @Providence Past wars,wars of gentlemen ?

 

[Nilgiri]

The eighteenth-century punctiliousness over fine points of the military game may be illustrated by the famous legend of the encounter between the English Guards and the French Guards at the Battle of Fontenoy in the War of the Austrian Succession. When the Red Line and the White Line had approached one another to within point-blank range, an English officer is said to have stepped forward from the ranks, made his bow to the enemy, and cried: “Gentlemen of the French Guard, fire first!”

The gentlemen of the French guards would have been shocked to do anything so rude,and Count d'Auteroche replies "Fire gentlemen,the French guard never fire first!".

The British guard finally fired first.

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Colonels of the French Guards and British Guards politely discussing who should fire first at the battle of Fontenoy (1745).

@Blue Marlin @Nilgiri @waz @Kaptaan @Providence Past wars,wars of gentlement ?

"Fire gentlemen,the French guard never fire first!".

Looks like my whole life was a lie:

FEU!