Brits With Battleships/Quotes

"These English are a strange people. They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"

—Quoted from Maratha chieftain allied to Wellington during his campaigns in India. From Highlander by Tim Newark.

"One might as well try to charge through a wall."

—Napoleon - On the British Infantry at Waterloo

" I always thought them bad soldiers, now I am sure of it! I turned their right, pierced their centre, broke them everywhere; the day was mine, and yet the British did not know it and would not run".

—Marshal Soult - Battle of Albuhera 1811

"When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it."

—The Duke of Wellington, after Waterloo.