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Nonetheless, because I have served you before, sir, I have ordered the retreat to Wavre.

5 seconds sound clip from the Waterloo (1970) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:50:03.759 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Marshal, the sector is broken. I have ordered a retreat.

- Retreat? I am 72 and a proud soldier.

- This steel is my word. I am too old to break it.

- If Wellington runs for the coast, none of us will get home to Berlin. The logical road is Namur.

- I do not trust the English.

- Nonetheless, because I have served you before, sir, I have ordered the retreat to Wavre.

- You may still cooperate with Wellington, but God help us if he does not stand.

- Grouchy. Gerard. You take 30,000 men. 30,000 men, one third of my army. You take the men and you pursue, you understand? You pursue Blucher.

- You don't let them regroup. You don't let them consolidate. And above all, you don't let them rejoin.

- But there are 10 different ways and directions Blucher might go, sir. Wavre and Namur.

- He is not a scatter of birds. We will find him on one road.

[...]

Waterloo (1970) Sound Clip

Waterloo (1970)posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1970 movie Waterloo (1970).

Actors: Rod Steiger (Napoleon Bonaparte), Christopher Plummer (Duke of Wellington), Orson Welles (King Louis XVIII)

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