I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the differenc…

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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ✨ Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 2 Nov. 1831)
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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ✨ Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 2 Nov. 1831)

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