"I see that everybody has lost their head since the infamous capitulation of Bailén. I realise that I must go there myself to get the machine working again."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Said after Dupont's capitulation at w:Bailén to the Spanish (1808), as quoted in The Art of Warfare on Land (1974) by David G. Chandler, p. 164