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Sire, we need four hours. The ground is too soft. I cannot move my cannon.

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

You can hear this line at 01:09:13.074 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It will not dry before noon, Sire.

- Well, we've fought with mud in our boots before.

- That's true. That's true.

- What's that?

- Sunday morning. The priest in Plancenoit won't give up his mass.

- Well, he won't have much of a congregation.

- I'm not asleep, Drouot.

- Sire, we need four hours. The ground is too soft. I cannot move my cannon.

- If I waited four hours, I would have lost the Battle of Austerlitz.

- Wellington won't hold us an hour, Not with that bouillabaisse of his... English, Brunswickers, Belgians and God knows what else.

- Sire, I cannot answer for my cannon.

- You are the cannon.

- If we could attack at 12, it would be better.

- Battles are lost and won in a quarter of an hour.

[...]

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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