Quotes

by Charley Elsden

"I can quote the names of battles mythologic and historical, From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical!"

--Major General Stanley, KGB

"Captain Blucher can take himself to the devil!"

--Frederick the Great, answering a complaint about lack of promotion.

"Whore's ar Arthur? Aw wish he wor here."

--Fusilier Horsefall under fire at Albuera

"I know you men from the gutter--because I'm one of you!"

--Leftenant Richard Sharpe, 95th Rifles

"Even the best troops run now and then. I think nothing of men running--provided, of course, they come back again!"

--The Duke of Wellington, 1828 (related by Sir Walter Scott)

"One hears so many conflicting stories, I begin to doubt that I was there at all!"

--The Duke of Wellington
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