Nick Lipscombe > Quotes

“The situation became so serious that it ended, later in the year, with his Foreign Secretary, Lord Canning, fighting a duel against his Secretary for War, Lord Castlereagh.”
― Nick Lipscombe, Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

“Nosworthy summed up the problem, ‘artillery although able to break enemy infantry when sufficiently massed or carefully orchestrated to achieve converging fire, was unable to exploit its own success’.”
― Nick Lipscombe, Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

“Brent Nosworthy’s excellent work on Napoleonic battle tactics concluded that ‘at close range, artillery was generally unable to inflict a greater number of casualties than competent well-led infantry occupying the same frontage’. The complications of providing that intimate level of artillery support”
― Nick Lipscombe, Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

“Oman’s book Wellington’s Army is 400 pages in length but just a single page is devoted to the artillery with the opening, ‘only a short note is required as to Wellington’s use of artillery’. Historians ever since”
― Nick Lipscombe, Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo

“Howie Muir in his introduction to Captain Hew Ross’s Memoirs provides an excellent appraisal of the efficacy and flexibility of horse artillery of the day:14”
― Nick Lipscombe, Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo