Napoleon later commented that: " I think I'm the boldest general that ever lived, but I daren't take post on that ridge with windmill at Valmy ( where Kellermann took position ) in 1793.

Oakey would later comment that we spent two days there, it took nine hours to set up one photograph and I daren't tell you how much money we spent.

He stands where the true poet should, in his properly vulnerable position, his motto: we are near a truth and daren't speak.