Napoleon and wellington biography
Duke of wellington
What did wellington say about napoleon...
Born in the same year, 1769, the two men took up their first commissions in the army around the same time.
Although Wellington spent nearly half of his career fighting the French and defeating them, Napoleon was scathing about Wellington’s abilities referring to him as the ‘sepoy general’, referring to his time in India.On the morning of 18th June 1815 just before the battle of Waterloo Napoleon informed his generals that Wellington was a bad general and they had nothing to fear.
Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo brought to an end a remarkable career.
Wellington in contrast famously said that Napoleon’s presence on the battlefield “was worth forty thousand men”.
Privately he criticised his military and political rule, referring to him as ‘Buonaparte’ to emphasise his non-French origins. “His whole life, civil, political and military, was a fraud’.
However, it was Wellington who saved Napoleon after Waterloo.
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