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  • MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

    PRICELESS PUT-DOWNS

    Nov 07, 2017 3 minutes
    By Claire Barrett

    “He accepted peace as if he had been defeated.”

    Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), French general and emperor, on Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, commander of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars

    “He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.”

    Sam Houston (1793–1863), lawyer, politician, and leader in the Texas Revolution, on Thomas Jefferson Green, politician and brigadier general in the Texas army

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