“Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.”

—  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

At the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), as quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1815).

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