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Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an…

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

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Grenville on the Duke of Wellington's successes in the Peninsular War (25 May 1809), quoted in Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807–1815 (1996), p. 94.

English (original)

Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.

— Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

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