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"Gennadi Yudin - Chactas"
"Ian Ogilvy - Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey"
"Michael Wilding - Major-General The Honourable Sir William Ponsonby"
"Sergo Zakariadze - Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt"
"Terence Alexander - Lieutenant-General Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge"
"Andrea Checchi - Soldier of the Old Guard"
"Donal Donnelly - Corporal O'Connor (as Donald Donnelly)"
"Charles Millot - Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy"
"Yevgeny Samoylov - Brigadier-General Pierre Cambronne"
"Oleg Vidov - Tomlinson"
"Charles Borromel - Mulholland"
"Peter Davies - Ensign James Hay, Lord Hay"
"Veronica De Laurentiis - Magdalene DeLancey"
"Vladimir Druzhnikov - Gerard"
"Willoughby Gray - Ramsey"
"Roger Green - Duncan"
"Orso Maria Guerrini - Officer"
"Richard Heffer - Mercer"
"Orazio Orlando - Constant"
"John Savident - Major-General Karl Freiherr von Müffling"
"Jeffry Wickham - Colborne"
"Susan Wood - Lady Sarah Lennox"
"Jack Hawkins - Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton"
"Virginia McKenna - Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond"
"Dan O'Herlihy - Marshal Michel Ney"
"Rupert Davies - Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon"
"Philippe Forquet - Brigadier-General Charles de la Bédoyère"
"Gianni Garko - Major-General Antoine Drouot"
"Ivo Garrani - Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult"
"[referring to his army] I don't know what they'll do to the enemy; but, by God, they frighten me."
"[on Napolean's maneuver that split the English and Prussian armies] By God, that man does war honor."
"[to a trumpeter, trying fruitlessly to recall the British cavalry] Stop that useless noise...! You'll hurt yourself."
"Give me night, or give me Blücher."
"Next to a battle lost, there's nothing so melancholy as a battle won."
"Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. That's bad manners."
"[thinks to himself, about Wellington] This Englishman has two qualities I admire: caution, and above all, courage."
"I can't believe my ears. You all stand before me, waving a piece of paper, crying 'abdicate, abdicate!' I WILL NOT!!! I WILL NOT, NOT, NOT!!!"
"Soldiers of the 5th, do you recognise me? If... you want to kill your Emperor... here I am. [pause] FIRE!"
"[dictating a letter] To my dear Prince Alexis... I did not "usurp" the crown. I found it, in the gutter, and I, I picked it up with my sword, and it was the people, Alexis, the people who put it on my head. He who saves a nation violates no law."
"I am France, and France is me!"
"I've been in this position before at the Battle of Marengo. I lost the battle at five o'clock, but I won it back again at seven!"
"[attempting to rally the Imperial Guard] Up to them. Up to them! Do I fight alone? Are you French? Fight with me! Are you the Guard? Stand with me! Do you know me? I am Ney! Ney, Marshal of France!"
"[launching his attack on the French right] Raise high the black flags, children. No pity. No prisoners. I'll shoot any man I see with pity in him. Forward!"
"ONE INCREDIBLE AFTERNOON NAPOLEON MET WELLINGTON...AT WATERLOO"
"Waterloo. The battle that changed the face of the world."
"The Men, the Battle, The Glory, The World Will Remember Forever"
"Rod Steiger - Emperor Napoleon I of France"
"Christopher Plummer - Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington"
"Orson Welles - King Louis XVIII of France"
"[to the Duchess of Richmond about arranging the ball] You really are the best of my generals."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.