The Despatches of Field-Marshal, the Duke of Wellington

The Despatches of Field-Marshal, the Duke of Wellington Synopsis

Excerpt from The Despatches of Field-Marshal, the Duke of Wellington: During His Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, and Relating to America, From 1799 to 1815

Wellington's early military career is described in the despatches from India, and the documents relating to the Peninsula give a picture, plain and striking, of the long years of battle and suffering by that matchless army of which the Duke proudly said that he thought he could have gone any where and done anything with it. The wonderful series of victories beginning with Roleia and ending with Waterloo are described in simple language, and at the end of each is given the return which shows the cost in killed and wounded of the triumph. But even these figures, terrible as they are, do not by any means indicate the total death-roll. The British losses in the Peninsula and at Waterloo have been estimated at officers and men killed or wounded, but that total does not include Spaniards, Portuguese, Bruns wickers, nor Hanoverians; nor do they relate in any way to the enormous losses by disease, losses in comparison with which the slain in battle are insignificant.

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