My orders from the Emperor were precise. To keep my sword in Blucher's back.
5 seconds sound clip from the Waterloo (1970) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:36:59.656 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Lancers on your left! Look out on the left!
- Give these to my son. Ride on. Save yourself.
- By God, sir, the cannons are calling us. March to the sound of the guns.
- We are a third of the army. Our duty is to......
- Do not presume to teach me my duty, General.
- My orders from the Emperor were precise. To keep my sword in Blucher's back.
- If you will not march to the sound of the guns, allow me to go.
- France would hang me. And maybe France would be right.
- I see men marching in column. Maybe five or six thousand.
- Horses, but whose? The French or the Prussians?
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