It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there. (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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