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109. Nofi, Waterloo Campaign, pp. 233–234.

  110. Coote, Napoleon and the Hundred Days, p. 241.

  111. Corrigan, Military Life, p. 326.

  112. Chandler, Campaigns, p. 1089.

  113. Weller, Wellington at Waterloo, pp. 166–67.

  114. Esdaile, Napoleon’s Wars, p. 557.

  115. Corrigan, Military Life, p. 329.

  116. Pitre, Second Anglo-Maratha War, pp. 75–76.

  117. Corrigan, Military Life, p. 77.

  118. Esdaile, Peninsular War, p. 454.

  119. Corrigan, Military Life, p. 85.

  120. Pitre, Second Anglo-Maratha War, p. 76.

  121. Wellington, quoted in Neillands, Clash of Arms, p. 41.

  122. Wellington, quoted in Corrigan, Military Life, p. 238.

  123. Reid, Wellington’s Army in the Peninsula, p. 19.

  124. Glover, Wellington as Military Commander, p. 204.

  125. Haythornethwaite, Wellington, the Iron Duke, p. 52.

  126. Chandler, Napoleonic Wars, p. 163.

  127. Weigley, Age of Battles, p. 534.

  128. Hibbert, Personal History, p. 43.

  129. Keegan, “Under Fire,” p. 124.

  130. Chandler, On the Napoleonic Wars, p. 165.

  131. Haythornethwaite, Wellington, the Iron Duke, p. 15.

  132. Longford, Wellington: The Years of the Sword, p. 442, quoted in Hendrick, “Campaign of Ropes,” p. 2.

  Chapter 16. Conclusion

  1. Meigs, “Generalship,” p. 4.

  2. Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, author of De re militari, written in the late fourth century AD.

  3. Meigs, “Generalship,” p. 10.

  4. Ibid., p. 11.

  5. Fuller, Generalship, p. 28.

  6. Meigs, “Generalship,” p. 13.

  7. Coram, Boyd, p. 334.

  8. Patton, quoted in Carroll, “Sidelined Patton,” p. 12.

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