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[Accounts from Russia lead me to conclude,] as you probably have…

Quote byCharles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey · 1764–1845

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Grenville (1 November 1812) on Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia, quoted in Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807–1815 (1996), p. 231.

English (original)

[Accounts from Russia lead me to conclude,] as you probably have done, that no reasonable hope of success is to be entertained in that quarter.

— Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

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