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Show A mtnerto urrpu lished letter of th Duke of Wellington written to Colonel Wilke, one of the garrison of St. Helena Hel-ena when Napoleon was there, contains the following interesting reference to tho duke's greatest battle: They used to call me the sepoy general. gen-eral. It is due to my having been a sepoy se-poy general that I won the battle of Waterloo. It targht me where tt place men with whom could trust trm honor of England and where to pliw men who were not so satisfactory. I had troops with me at Waterloo in , whose bands the safety and honor of king and country could well be placed. .1 had numbers of others, some of whom I could not trust at all, some I could barely bare-ly trust, and others who were not properly prop-erly trained. It was owing to the fact of my having learned in the sepoy wars to place the best of the men in the parts of the field where the greatest courage and bravery were required, and others where those qualities were not required, that I won the battle of Waterloo. Westminster G&zetta. |