
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).