If only Blucher could outrun Grouchy, and give me even one corps.
6 seconds sound clip from the Waterloo (1970) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:17.252 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Play the goat next time, Paddy, and you'll be a Sergeant.
- I don't know what they'll do to the enemy. By God, they frighten me.
- Ah, dirty night. Hard morrow.
- If I fail tomorrow, God, I hope, will have mercy on me. For nobody else will.
- If only Blucher could outrun Grouchy, and give me even one corps.
- The Prussians. It all depends on the Prussians.
- Why is it Grouchy does only six miles a day and I do ten?
- The mud on that slope would help us. They'll slither up to it.
- But the roads could slow Blucher, and that'll be the end of it.
- Well, tell him the roads are the same for everyone. True? True?
- Then you tell him to walk faster.
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