"I expected it," he said.
"You couldn't have expected it, because it was I who advised him to make it." "You thought differently a few moments ago." "Yes; but you yourself reminded me that I was not General Hatry.

Come, what is your third proposition ?" said Roland impatiently; for he began to perceive, or rather he had perceived from the beginning, that the noble part in the affair belonged to the royalist general.
"My third proposition," said Cadoudal, "is not a proposition but an order; an order for two hundred of my men to withdraw.

General Hatry has one hundred men; I will keep one hundred.

My Breton forefathers were accustomed to fight foot to foot, breast to breast, man to man, and oftener one to three than three to one.

If General Hatry is victorious, he can walk over our bodies and tranquilly enter Vannes; if he is defeated, he cannot say it is by numbers.