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Nov 13, 2014 · 18th June 1812. “I entirely concur with you in the necessity of inquiring into it (Slades affair). It is occasioned entirely by a trick our officers of cavalry have acquired of galloping at everything, and then galloping back as fast as they gallop on the enemy. They never…
The alternative is that Zieten did not write to Wellington until just before his 8:15 letter to Blücher, at which point he knew that he was under serious attack, that Napoleon was with the enemy, and that he would be forced back to the line Gosselies to Gilly.
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I have seen their backs before, madam.I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke.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.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.[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...
- Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. Duke of Wellington. Motivational, Education, Wise.
- I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. Duke of Wellington. Military, War, Humorous.
- Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. Duke of Wellington. Horse, Doe, Born.
- We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. Duke of Wellington. War, France, Total War.
- It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
- I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. - Of the British Parliament.
- My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
- The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Almost a year later, in February 1814 just before Wellington’s final Peninsular offensive, Bathurst invited Wellington to provide a second assessment of events in America. “The defence of Canada ,” Wellington wrote in reply, “depends upon the navigation of the lakes …
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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.
