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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
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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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Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
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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.
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Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
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A great country cannot wage a little war.
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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 called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
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The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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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.
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An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
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I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
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Napoleon has humbugged me, by God he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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