When I reflect upon the characters and attainments of some of the General officers of this army…on whom I am to rely…I tremble: and, 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.”
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“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”
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