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  1. 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 c…
  2. I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long …
  3. 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 resul…
  4. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
  5. 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 ev…
  6. Who? Who?
  7. 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 …
  8. 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…

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