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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Veterans Day

1769–1852 United Kingdom

← All quotes by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Despatch (1815)

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Saying. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.