re: #119 Nojay UK

“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won”

Wellington, in a letter from the field at Waterloo after the French were broken by the Prussians leaving fifty thousand men dead, half of them from his own forces. Old Hooky was another Great Accountant, holding together a patchwork alliance of disparate forces led by fools and self-serving rogues against one of the greatest Accountants of them all, Boney.

The Duke of Wellington was a master butcher in the mold of our own U.S. Grant, President of the United States and General of the Grand Army of the Potomac. Meat grinders on both sides of the pond, as it were.