Dear Mr. Cornwell, I have just come across (don’t ask how) a quote credited to Sir Andrew Agnew, who commanded the 21st of Foot of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, at Dettingen, Flanders, June 27, 1743. He is reputed to have ordered his men, “Dinna fire till ye can see the whites of their e’en”, the same as the American officer William Prescott later ordered the men at Bunker Hill. Given the range and accuracy of the muskets of the time, it occurred to me that this might have been a common expression. Have you come across it in any of your research? Thanks for the hours of reading pleasure you have given our family. Roberta Parker