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What Did The Duke Of Wellington Say About The Battle Of Waterloo After It Was Over

mickman | 12:57 Sat 11th Jul 2015 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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"that may have been etc" I have read all of the quotes made by the duke after the battle but none start with the words above. Any clues to the answer ?

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scorpiojo

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It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. … By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.

scorpiojo

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Baldric

"the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life"

(I think)

Birdfeeder

Don't know if this helps.but they are quotes fro various books on Wellington.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Letter from the field of Waterloo (June 1815), as quoted in Decisive Battles of the World (1899) by Edward Shepherd Creasy
It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. … By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.
Remark to Thomas Creevey (18 June 1815), using the word nice in an older sense of "uncertain, delicately balanced", about the Battle of Waterloo. Creevy, a civilian, got a public interview with Wellington at headquarters, and quoted the remark in his book Creevey Papers (1903), in Ch. X, on p. 236; the phrase "a damned nice thing" has sometimes been paraphrased as "a damn close-run thing."

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