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“When Warner saw Francis’s line give way, he knew the battle was lost. He lost his normally stoic equanimity and “poured out a torrent of execrations upon the flying troops.” But with his right flank and rear crumbling under pressure from Riedesel’s Germans and Acland’s grenadiers attacking his left with help from Lindsay’s light infantry detachment as they reached the ridge, Warner regained his composure and yelled for his men to “scatter and meet me in Manchester.”129”
― Bruce M. Venter, The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America