Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Unknown5" channel.

  1. Or as Red Skelton might have said at a Dean Martin Roast, "And General Pyrrhus, who famously said, 'We have to stop winning like this!'. Never had a dinner."
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  2. You forgot the brandy he sells as well.
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  3.  @matthoward7645  From what I can tell, he lost about half a dozen battles and several skirmishes during the Peninsular Campaign. Several sieges are also listed as defeats. However, it must be remembered that Wellesley was horribly outnumbered for most of the campaign, and had to pick and choose carefully when he could fight a fraction of the French Army. He only had the troops on hand, and few if any reinforcements. If he lost badly he would have no army. So overall, he did pretty well. As far as losing the sieges, if your opponent starts approaching with 2-3 times the number of men you have, it is better to take the loss and keep your army intact rather than lose it all just for the sake of trying to keep the siege going. By the way, fun fact, 2-3 of these losses, maybe a couple more, were at the hands of Marshall Ney. I wonder if this might have influenced Ney's thinking at Waterloo.
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