“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won...” — Duke of Wellington Quote

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”

“As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'”

“There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.”

“While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'”