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1. adventuresinhistoryland.com › what-wellington-saidWhat Wellington Said. - Adventures In Historyland

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   Nov 13, 2014 · Wellington was a horseman and had lead cavalry charges from the front in India, he actually did know what he was talking about. In almost every instance, he criticised his cavalry for specific reverses.

2. www.azquotes.com › author › 15482-Duke_of_WellingtonTOP 25 QUOTES BY DUKE OF WELLINGTON (of 72) | A-Z Quotes

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   Discover Duke of Wellington famous and rare quotes. Share Duke of Wellington quotations about war, army and soldiers. "I don't know what effect these men will..."

3. www.wellingtondukes.com › dukes-snatch-crown-fromDukes snatch crown from Royals with three-goal third period

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   Oct 12, 2024 · The Wellington Dukes grinded out a victory against a struggling Markham Royals team, 4-1 on Friday night. Three tallies in the second half of the third period was the spark the Dukes needed to come away with the win going into the Thanksgiving weekend.

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   I have seen their backs before, madam.

   I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke.

   Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

   Who will attack first tomorrow? I or Bonaparte? -Bonaparte. -Well, Bonaparte has not given me any idea of his projects, and as my plans will depend on his, how can you expect to tell me what mine are?

   Up, Guards, and at them again.

   Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

   Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg! Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!

   Give me night or give me Blücher.

   My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: t...

   It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. … By God! I don't think it would have...

   They came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way.

   The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recolle...

   Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General —'s account which did no...

   Publish and be damned.

   The national character of the three kingdoms was strongly marked in my army. I found the English regiments always in the best humour when we were well supplied with beef; the Irish when we were in...

   Buonaparte's mind was, in its details, low and ungentlemanlike. I suppose the narrowness of his early prospects and habits stuck to him; what we understand by gentlemanlike feelings he knew nothing...

   The noble Earl had alluded to the propriety of effecting Parliamentary Reform. The noble Earl had, however, been candid enough to acknowledge that he was not prepared with any measure of reform, an...

   I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

   The revolution is made, that is to say, that power is transferred from one class of society, the gentlemen of England, professing the faith of the Church of England, to another class of society, th...

   The foreign policy of England should be to maintain peace, not only for herself but between the powers of the world. This should be her policy, not only because she can have no interest in a change...

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   Pour la canaille: Faut la mitraille.

   Mistaken for me, is he? That's strange, for no one ever mistakes me for Mr. Jones.

   If you believe that you will believe anything.

   You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

   I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

   We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France.

   I should have given more praise.

   Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

   There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

   During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

   Sparrow-hawks, Ma'am

   Not at all. If I had lost the battle, they would have shot me.

   At first it was a lie, then a strong delusion, and at last downright madness.

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   [N]o man better exemplified the best qualities of the English ruling class than the Duke of Wellington, with his high-nosed aristocratic confidence and direct simplicity of speech and manners; a ma...

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   Like Horatio Nelson, his naval counterpart, the “Iron Duke” was synonymous with courage, stoicism, and duty. Yet, away from the battlefield, this embodiment of conformist British morality had a host of peculiar habits and an insatiable appetite for women. Here are 42 noble facts about the Duke of Wellington.

6. ageofrevolution.org › meeting-nelson-wellingtonThe only meeting of Nelson and Wellington - Age of Revolution

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   Wellesley only returned to Britain in 1805, but it so happened that his visit to London to solicit a new command coincided with Nelson’s brief return home after his abortive pursuit of the French fleet from the Mediterranean to the West Indies and back.

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   Did Wellington know what he was talking about?

   • However you will note that he is quite specific here. Wellington was a horseman and had lead cavalry charges from the front in India, he actually did know what he was talking about. In almost every instance, he criticised his cavalry for specific reverses.

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   What did Arthur Wellesley say before a battle?

   • As quoted in The Military and Political Life of Arthur Wellesley: Duke of Wellington (1852) by "A Citizen of the World", and in Wellingtoniana (1852), edited by John Timbs During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

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   Why did Wellington hang his men?

   • This much misquoted line seems to sum up the popular image of Wellington, as the cold upper class General who flogged and hanged his men, while expecting them to follow his example and control themselves, fighting for nothing more than King and Country. But actually it says something very different.

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   Why did Wellington refuse to go to Canada?

   • Wellington did refuse to go to Canada, but it was because he believed the War of 1812 was destined to end in a stalemate, and he would therefore be more useful in Europe. Wellington’s prediction proved more or less correct, with neither the British or the Americans ceding any territory in the conflict.

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   How did Wellington respond to a cannonball?

   • Wellington was careful to hide his emotions on the battlefield, however. So the story goes, when a British Field Marshall named Lord Uxbridge had his leg destroyed by a cannonball, he cried out, “By God, Sir! I’ve lost my leg,” and Wellington calmly replied, “By God, Sir!

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   What problems did Wellington face?

   • Looting and bad behaviour were problems Wellington continually battled against as he strove to keep the people of Spain and Portugal on his side. By 1812 in the Peninsula he was a Marshal of Portugal and commander in chief of the Spanish army, the Spanish and Portuguese army’s made up at least half of his available force.

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8. www.oxfordreference.com › display › 10Duke of Wellington - Oxford Reference

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   5 days ago · Duke of Wellington 1769–1852. British soldier and statesman. As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, ‘I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.’. usually quoted as, ‘I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me’.