who said: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
bartleby.com & quoteland.com say it was William Prescott during the
Battle of Bunker Hill.
Webster's American Military Biographies (1978) claims it was attributed
to John Parker and that it's engraved on a stone on Lexington green.
chuck finnigan, LMS
central elem school
sedro woolley, wa
cfinnigan@swsd.k12.wa.us
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