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7 Copy quote. Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero. Duke of Wellington. Military, Believe, Hero. Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index.
Scene showing cavalry about to charge at the Battle of Waterloo It has been a damned nice thing—the nearest run thing you ever saw.. With these words the Duke of Wellington summed up the fierce and bloody battle which on 18 June 1815 saw the final defeat of Napoleonic France near the village of Waterloo, ten miles south of Brussels.
– Duke of Wellington Our army is composed of the scum of the earth – the mere scum of the earth. All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.
At the Duchess of Richmond's ball (15 June 1815), as quoted in Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places (1896) by Archibald Forbes, quotes Captain Bowles account and citing the Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington quote: Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
27 de jan. de 2024 · Famous Wellington Quotes. Go to table of contents. I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. — Napoleon Bonaparte. 3. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse ...
22 de jul. de 2017 · Perhaps the most successful general in British history, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, enjoyed his greatest tactical triumph on a dusty Spanish field at Salamanca in 1812. There, as one eyewitness wrote, he “defeated an army of 40,000 men in 40 minutes” and opened the road towards the liberation of Madrid in a victory that helped ...
