Comentario hecho para ilustrar la importancia táctica del movimiento de tropas en batalla.
Fuente: [Ferril], Arther. Los orígenes de la guerra (desde la Edad de Piedra hasta Alejandro Magno). Traducción de Cano Morales, Fernando. Editorial Thames and Hudson, Ltd. 1985. ISBN 84-505-6986-9, p. 207, nota 34.
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Frases célebres de Arthur Wellesley
“Napoleón me ha engañado, por Dios; ha ganado veinticuatro horas de marcha sobre mí.”
Comentario en el baile de la duquesa de Richmond el 15 de junio de 1815, citado por el capitán Bowles y citando las Cartas del primer conde de Malmesbury.
Original: «Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me».
Fuente: [Forbes], Archibald. Camps, Quarters and Casual Places. Editorial Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 978-14-1911-172-3.
Original: «My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: the bravery of my troops hitherto saved me from the greater evil; but to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expens of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune but for the result to the public».
Fuente: [Adams], William Henry Davenport. Memorable Battles in English History: Where Fought, why Fought, and Their Results; with the Military Lives of the Commanders. Editorial Griffith and Farran, 1863. Procedencia del original: Universidad de Wisconsin - Madison. Digitalizado: 27 de marzo de 2009, p. 400.
Fuente: Carta desde el campo de Waterloo (junio de 1815).
Original: «The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance».
Fuente: Citado en Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1st Baron), Elizabeth Trevelyan. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volumen 1. Colaborador Tauchnitz, Karl Christoph Traugott (Leipzig). Editor Tauchnitz, 1849. Procedencia del original: National Library of the Netherlands. Digitalizado: 6 junio 2012, p. 180.
Fuente: Carta a John Croker de 8 de agosto de 1815.
“Dame la noche o dame a Blücher.”
Comentario hecho por Wellington durante un punto crítico de la batalla de Waterloo alrededor de las 17.45 horas del 18 de junio. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher era el comandante en jefe del ejército prusiano al que Wellington esperaba desesperadamente como refuerzos.
Original: «Give me night or give me Blücher».
Fuente: [Cowell], Stephen. Demise of the Military Hero: How Emancipation, Education and Medication changed society's attitude to conflict. Editorial Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2017. ISBN 978-17-8803-544-6. p. 92.
“Creo que olvidé decirte que me hicieron duque.”
Original: «I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke».
Fuente: Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: South of France, embassy to Paris, and Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815. Editores: Arthur Richard Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (2d Duke of). Editor: J. Murray, 1862. Procedencia del original: Universidad de Michigan. Digitalizado: 28 noviembre 2006, p. 100.
Fuente: Postscriptum a una carta a su hermano Henry Wellesley, II duque de Wellington, de 22 de mayo de 1814.
“Arriba, guardias, y contra ellos otra vez.”
Dicho en la batalla de Waterloo, según lo citado en una carta de capitán Batty de los Foot Guards (el 22 de junio de 1815), a menudo mal citado como «Up Guards and at 'em». Wellington mismo, años más tarde, declaró que no sabía exactamente lo que había dicho en la ocasión, y dudó que alguien lo hiciera.
Original: «Up, Guards, and at them again».
Fuente: Sale, Nigel. The Lie at the Heart of Waterloo: The Battle's Hidden Last Half Hour. Edición ilustrada. Editorial The History Press, 2014 ISBN 978-07-5096-276-6.
“Aporreando con fuerza esto, caballeros; vamos a ver quien machacará más tiempo.”
Original: «Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest».
Fuente: [Scott], Walter. Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk, and Abstract of the Eyrbiggia-saga. Editor Cadell, 1834. Procedencia del original: National Library of the Netherlands. Digitalizado: 29 agotos 2012, p. 125.
Fuente: En la batalla de Waterloo (18 de junio de 1815), citado por sir Walter Scott, en Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1815).
Arthur Wellesley: Frases en inglés
“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
On Napoleon Bonaparte, in notes for 2 November 1831; later, in the notes for 18 September 1836, he is quoted as saying:
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)
As quoted in Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) by David Hayman and Sam Slote. Though such remarks have often been quoted as Wellington's response on being called Irish, the earliest published sources yet found for similar comments are those about him attributed to an Irish politician:
The poor old Duke! what shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell, in a speech (16 October 1843), as quoted in Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials (1844), p. 93 http://books.google.com/books?id=dpKbWonMghwC&pg=PA93&dq=%22+make+a+man+a+horse%22&num=100&ei=0YVZSIWXCIiSjgG37bGIDA
No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell during a speech (16 October 1843), as quoted in Reports of State Trials: New Series Volume V, 1843 to 1844 (1893) "The Queen Against O'Connell and Others", p. 206 http://books.google.com/books?id=zWETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT108&dq=%22+make+a+man+a+horse%22&num=100&ei=MohZSJ-PK4a4jgG-lLGJDA
Variants: If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse.
Quoted as as an anonymous proverb in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899), p. 171
Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
Quoted as a dubious statement perhaps made early in his career in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (1992) edited by John Simpson and Jennifer Speake, p. 162.
Misattributed
“Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!”
On the coming of the railways, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), by Paul Johnson. p. 993.
“I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me.”
Said to be his remarks on a draft of new troops sent to him in Spain (1809), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942) by H. L. Mencken, this quote is disputed, and may be derived from a comment made to Colonel Robert Torrens about some of his generals in a despatch (29 August 1810): "As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, "I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do."
Disputed
“Uxbridge: By God, sir, I've lost my leg!
Wellington: By God, sir, so you have!”
Exchange said to have occurred at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), after Lord Uxbridge lost his leg to a cannonball; as quoted in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Variant account:
Uxbridge: I have lost my leg, by God!
Wellington: By God, and have you!
Thomas Hardy, in The Dynasts, Pt. III Act VII, scene viii, portraying the incident.
“Circumstances over which I have no control.”
Phrase said to have first been used by Wellington, as quoted in notes for 18 September 1836
I hope you will not think I am deficient in feeling toward you, or that I am wanting in desire to serve you, because the results of my attempts have failed, owing to circumstances over which I have no control.
As quoted in The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/lifelettersoflad00clevuoft edited by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland
Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)
Queen Victoria, concerned about the sparrows that had nested in the roof of the partly finished Crystal Palace, asked Wellington's advice as to how to get rid of them. Wellington’s reply was succinct and to the point, Sparrow-hawks, Ma'am. He was right, by the time the Crystal Palace was opened by the Queen in 1851, they had all gone!
Fuente: Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Duke-of-Wellington/
“Not at all. If I had lost the battle, they would have shot me.”
Wellington's retort when he was asked if he felt honored at being feted as a hero by the people of Brussels after returning victorious from Waterloo, according to Sir John Keegan's chapter on Wellington in his book The Mask of Command
Letter to John Wilson Croker (29 December 1835), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 288
Letter to John Wilson Croker (30 September 1833), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 218
Remarks to John Wilson Croker (20 October 1825), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. I (1884), p. 353
Letter from the field of Waterloo (June 1815), as quoted in Decisive Battles of the World (1899) by Edward Shepherd Creasy. Quoted too in Memorable Battles in English History: Where Fought, why Fought, and Their Results; with the Military Lives of the Commanders by William Henry Davenport Adams; Editor Griffith and Farran, 1863. p. 400.
“They came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way.”
Fuente: About the French attacks at the Battle of Waterloo, quoted in Roberts, Andrew (2010); Napoleon and Wellington; Hachette, UK; ISBN 0297865269.
Statement (1838), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. I (1903), p. 155
