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“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.”
― Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
― 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’.”
― Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
― 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”
― Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
― Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo
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