 | John Timbs - 1864 - 378 Seiten
...and soon after wrote the words just quoted from his letter. .Again, he feelingly wrote : " My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...companions, and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except ing a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops ha& hitherto... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...osity and ation. The Monks and the Giants. Canto \. 6. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1769-1852. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Despatch, 1815. SYDNEY SMITH. 1769-1845. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...osity and ation. Tht Monks and the Giants. Canto, i. 6. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1769-1852. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Despatch, 1815. GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827. Story ! God bless you ! I have none to tell, sir. The Friend... | |
 | Rosamond Waite - 1878 - 344 Seiten
...his success, he was grieving for his brave men. "My heart is broken," he writes after his victory, " by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends...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 has hitherto... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1879 - 434 Seiten
...him almost immediately after his return from the field, he thus expressed himself : — " My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...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 has hitherto... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1881 - 248 Seiten
...letter written by the Duke after his return from the field, he thus expressed himself : — " My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." NOTES. 1 Waterloo, a village in front... | |
 | Bartle Teeling - 1881 - 456 Seiten
...capacity shall have made me what you (father) wish.' — Due d'Enghien ( Conde). December 18 ' My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...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 has hitherto... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1881 - 408 Seiten
...him as he passed. A terrible number of men were killed in the battle. Wellington wrote, " My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...old friends and companions and my poor soldiers." But the battle of Waterloo ended the war. The Allies marched into Paris in triumph, and Lewis XVIII.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...preserving peace. ,, GEOBGE WASHINGTON— Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. fc. DUKE OF WELLINGTON —Despatch. 1815. One to destroy, is murder by the law; And gibbets keep the... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 264 Seiten
...night, his tears came thick and fust, and he sobbed and moaned aloud. Soon after he wrote : " My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in...lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won," And when Dr Hume came into his tent to read the list of killed, the Duke—though worn out with fatigue—sat... | |
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Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won... 
