“They wanted this iron fist to command them.”

— Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Of troops sent to the Canadian frontier in the War of 1812, in notes for 8 November 1840.
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)

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