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Updated: June 16, 2025
In vain did Napoleon at last despatch Soult, the ablest of his lieutenants, to turn the tide of Wellington's success and defend France against the English invader. Wellington met Soult's manoeuvres with superior skill, and his boldness with superior vigour. The fortune of war had hitherto kept separate the orbits in which Napoleon and he had moved.
"Why didn't we all kiss and be friends after the Napoleonic wars?" she demanded, "instead of getting up Peterloo massacres, and anti-Corn Law riots, and breaking the Duke of Wellington's windows?" "All this talk of downing Militarism," she continued. "It's like trying to do away with the other sort of disorderly house. You don't stamp out a vice by chivying it round the corner.
Huskisson, it should be said, had by this time ceased to belong to the Duke of Wellington's Government.
The King asked how we could be such fools as to think he would be of any use. While the Duke was with the King the Duke of Cumberland was with Lady Conyngham, and told her, amongst other things, that the 'Times' was the Duke of Wellington's paper. The 'Morning Journal' is his paper, and uses the expressions he puts into the King's mouth.
I often wished I had brought my "Napier's History" of Wellington's campaigns with me. When we got back to St. Julien the staff told me that the Germans had registered pretty nearly all over the place during the evening, and that it was a case of shells from north, south, east and west.
Such was the code of despotism which the continental powers adopted for Europe and which they later proposed to extend to America. It was an attempt to make the world safe for autocracy. Wellington's protest at Verona marked the final withdrawal of England from the alliance which had overthrown Napoleon and naturally inclined her toward a rapprochement with the United States.
The Hanoverians, exclusive of the Legion, numbered 15,000: of Nassau troops, Dutch and Belgian, commanded by the Prince of Orange, son to the sovereign of the Netherlands, there might be 17,000; but the spirit of the Belgian part of this army was, not without reason, suspected on all sides. The Duke of Wellington's motley host amounted, then, in all to 75,000 men.
"Why do you say, as they said, major? Have you any doubt about it?" "My only reason for doubting is that they are both young fellows of about twenty, which would accord well enough with the claim of one of them to be a lieutenant; but that the other should be a captain on Lord Wellington's staff, and a colonel in the Portuguese service, is quite incredible." "It would seem so, certainly, major.
Much criticism has been expended on the supposed surprise of Wellington's army in its cantonments by Napoleon's rapid advance. These comments would hardly have been made if sufficient attention had been paid to the geography of the Waterloo campaign; and if it had been remembered that the protection of Brussels was justly considered by the allied generals a matter of primary importance.
"Well, Dolly dear, do you see how much Mr. Abel Newt resembles Lord Tattersalls?" "Yes, ma." "It's very striking, isn't it?" "Yes, ma." "Or now I look, I think he is even more like the Marquis of Crockford. Don't you think so?" "Yes, ma?" "Very like indeed." "Yes, ma." "Dolly, dear, don't you think his nose is like the Duke of Wellington's? You remember the Wellington nose, my child?" "Yes, ma."
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