4 Arthur Wellesley Quotes on War

Arthur Wellesley quotes on war

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

8. 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 been done if I had not been there.

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

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30. [I don't] care a twopenny damn what [becomes] of the ashes of Napoleon Bonaparte.