During the battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington appeared
frequently among his men. Sergeant Cotton, in his book “A Voice from
Waterloo,” says:
Whenever the Duke came, which at this momentous period was
often, there was a low whisper in the ranks “Here’s the Duke!”
and all was steady as on parade. No matter what the havoc and
destruction might be, the Duke was always the coolest man there;
in the words of an eye-witness of this bloody scene, the Duke
was coolness personified.
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