“Wellesley's success…appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.”

— Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Letter to Lord Grenville (25 May 1809) on the Duke of Wellington's successes in the Peninsular War, quoted in Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815 (Yale University Press, 1996), p. 94.
1800s

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