I thank you sir for your generous sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man. (Johann de Kalb)

I thank you sir for your generous sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man.

Johann de Kalb

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