"They wanted this iron fist to command them."
— War of 1812

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (8 November 1840), recalling the fate of some of his best troops from Bordeaux, sent to the Canadian frontier during the War of 1812; in Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831–1851 (1888), p. 252