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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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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...
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35 Sourced Quotes. 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. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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“Napoleón me ha engañado, por Dios; ha ganado veinticuatro horas de marcha sobre mí.” — Arthur Wellesley. Comentario en el baile de la duquesa de Richmond el 15 de junio de 1815, citado por el capitán Bowles y citando las Cartas del primer conde de Malmesbury.
‘I vow to God I don't know what I shall do with my awkward son Arthur. He is food for powder and nothing more.’. Anne Wellesley, Wellington's mother. View this object. Wellesley at the Battle of Assaye, 1803. India. Arthur first saw action during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802).
