That was a command that was given by an army officer 243 years ago.
It wasn't obeyed.
The war was on. It would last for eight years, ending in a series of treaties in Paris.
All most all of the major European powers used the Revolutionary War as a pretext to go to war against somebody else. In some ways, the war might be viewed as a continuation, or appendix, to the Seven Years War. If historians were agreeable to a bit of renaming, the Seven Years War might be renamed the First World War.
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