"I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, spoken statement (2 November 1831), as quoted in Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886) by Philip Henry Stanhope