Sorry I m not fluent in Corsu but he refers to the battle of Pontu Novu and I m hardly any better at Corsica's history but "Voltaire, in his Précis du Siècle de Louis XV, admiringly wrote about the battle: "The principal weapon of the Corsicans was their courage. This courage was so great that in one of these battles, near a river named Golo, they made a rampart of their dead in order to have the time to reload behind them before making a necessary retreat; their wounded were mixed among the dead to strengthen the rampart. Bravery is found everywhere, but such actions aren't seen except among free people."
You can find a little more here http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ponte_Novu
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Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica

 By Alexandra Mystra Jaf
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