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25acr- Wanderers getting order in battle to retreat (7) ?O???ES

Nomades - wandereres

OM (military order) in SEDAN (battle - reversed)

OOps - wanderers

I have the quotation , but the last of the five words from the associated image, or rather its anagram, will not fit at 38a , first because it is 1 letter too long, second because the first two letters I have in the grid, which are definitely correct, do not occur in the word!
Can anyone explain?

...and the explanation is: there is an alternative version of the text, easily googled!

Wasted a lot of time having put screens for 20ac! Can anyone cast their mind back to last week's puzzle, 15ac is my last drink. I have ???ri?h?o and don't know/can't find one to fit.

Are you sure of your letters? I think it might have been American(o).

Thanks Malone, wasn't happy with the "h" word anyway. I thought last week's much harder than this one, took me ages to get the theme.