This step I must risk, or everything is lost.

We must beat the enemy, or perish all of us before his batteries.

So I read the case; so I will act in it.
"Make this my determination known to all Officers of the Army; prepare the men for what work is now to ensue, and say that I hold myself entitled to demand exact fulfilment of orders.

For you, when I reflect that you are Prussians, can I think that you will act unworthily?
But if there should be one or another who dreads to share all dangers with me, he,"-- continued his Majesty, with an interrogative look, and then pausing for answer,--"can have his Discharge this evening, and shall not suffer the least reproach from me."-- Modest strong bass murmur; meaning "No, by the Eternal!" if you looked into the eyes and faces of the group.

Never will Retzow Junior forget that scene, and how effulgently eloquent the veteran physiognomies were.
"Hah, I knew it," said the King, with his most radiant smile, "none of you would desert me! I depend on your help, then; and on victory as sure."-- The speech winds up with a specific passage: "The Cavalry regiment that does not on the instant, on order given, dash full plunge into the enemy, I will, directly after the Battle, unhorse, and make it a Garrison regiment.