Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)
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by cjs_ac
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Why would Wellington have to answer to the Foreign Office for the administration of the forces under his command when that was the responsibility of the War Office?
by delichon
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Likely apocryphal. It isn't in the massive official "Despatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington" and the exaggerated, humorous style is not characteristic.
by BigTTYGothGF
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There's no way that's not a joke written many decades or more later.
by RobotToaster
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Technically from Sir Arthur Wellesley, he wasn't made duke until 1814.
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