Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1987 |
| AUTHOR: | Richard William Dowling (1838–67) |
| QUOTATION: | I will not only give ’em battle, I will lick ’em! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lieutenant During the Battle of Sabine Pass, September 8, 1863, the Confederates at Fort Griffin did defeat the Union forces trying to occupy southeast Texas. In forty-five minutes, Dowling and his forty-six men captured 350 prisoners, cannon, and two gunboats, while crippling a third, without suffering any casualties. |
| SUBJECTS: | Winning |