Duke of Wellington Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

• When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

  Duke of Wellington

  Mistake, Army, Men

• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Humorous

• Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

  Duke of Wellington

  Fighting, Army, Victory

• Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Scum Of The Earth, Waterloo

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)

• I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Infamous, Weak

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.358

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