A famous command attributed to William Prescott, an American officer, at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the Revolutionary War. Prescott may have said “color” rather than “whites.”
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes
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 | Israel Putnam |
| 1775 (chronology) |
| Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th Baronet |
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