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单词 god is on the side of the big battalions
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God (or Providence) is on the side of the big battalions
c. In, or with allusion to, the saying: God (or Providence) is on the side of the big battalions.
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1702 E. Boursault Lettres Nouvelles (new ed.) 356 La Reine-Mere dit un jour au Maréchal de la Ferté..les Ennemis sont plus forts que nous..mais nous avons le bon droit pour nous... Madame, lui répondit-il, ne vous y fiez pas: j'ay toûjours vû Dieu du côté des gros Bataillons.]
1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxviii. 1013 Moreau expressed a fact of general application, explained according to the irreligious ideas of the French Revolution, when he said, that ‘Providence was always on the side of dense battalions’.
1862 T. Hughes Struggle Kansas 363 ‘Providence is on the side of the strongest battalions’ is a saying..much believed in here.
1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. Suppl. A Militarist is a person who believes that..Providence is on the side of the big battalions.
1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 37 Four hundred thousand men there lay, The Big Battalions blessed the day.
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