Duke of Wellington Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, British Soldiers, Facts

• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Soldier

• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

  Duke of Wellington

  Scum Of The Earth, History, Soldier

• 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.

  Duke of Wellington

  Believe, Heart, Loss

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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