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.