When his second in command (Lord Uxbridge) at the Battle of Waterloo lost his leg and exclaimed ‘I’ve lost my leg’, the Duke replied, ‘my god, man, so you have’.
Man was a straight up savage.
He didn’t like Lord Uxbridge because Uxbridge had run off with Wellington’s brother’s wife.
duke of wellington and admiral nelson are two of my ‘favourite’ historical figures. (using this to show off one of my favourite paintings ever, nelsons’ funeral)
He has a great pub in Soho, been there many a time.
It took the rest of Europe to bring us down, shut up pussies
Here we go again with the Barries taking full responsibility for the victory at Waterloo. You do realise you sound like the fucking yanks when they claim they won WW2 by themselves?
>On Sept. 25, 1775, the British captured Ethan Allen while he ran a fool’s errand to Canada. Fresh from his stunning capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen thought he could capture Montreal. He led an invasion into Canada with a small band of his Green Mountain Boys, but he timed the mission badly and didn’t think it through. The British seized Allen and held him on a series of prison ships, then moved him to England. As an officer of the Continental Army he would have been executed, but the British feared reprisals.
So the British held Allen for two years in England, then sent him back to America as part of a prisoner exchange.
>**Ethan Allen Returns to England**
>Ethan Allen returned to England after the war, and the British made fun of him. One day they put a picture of George Washington in an outhouse where Allen would be sure to see it. He used the outhouse but said nothing about the picture. Then the British asked him about it and Allen said it was a very appropriate place for an Englishman to hang the picture because “nothing will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.”
No one has ever over hyped a victory like the english with Waterloo.
It wasn’t decisive at all, Prussians made the day, Russians had won the war, but the UK won’t stop jerking off of it since then.
The truth is that the victorious British and their allies were pitiful compared to the losing French. Everyone knows about Napoleon, but who thinks about Wellington and Blucher?
Wellington was Irish COYBIG 🇮🇪
God damn, I hate their actions but I love their style
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When his second in command (Lord Uxbridge) at the Battle of Waterloo lost his leg and exclaimed ‘I’ve lost my leg’, the Duke replied, ‘my god, man, so you have’.
Man was a straight up savage.
He didn’t like Lord Uxbridge because Uxbridge had run off with Wellington’s brother’s wife.
duke of wellington and admiral nelson are two of my ‘favourite’ historical figures. (using this to show off one of my favourite paintings ever, nelsons’ funeral)
https://preview.redd.it/oovze9duuxlc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5730369f75f3271afeb15b6d56ec6eb91a213a5
What a gigachad. Brings a tear to my eye.
He has a great pub in Soho, been there many a time.
It took the rest of Europe to bring us down, shut up pussies
Here we go again with the Barries taking full responsibility for the victory at Waterloo. You do realise you sound like the fucking yanks when they claim they won WW2 by themselves?
Reminds me of [this Ethan Allen anecdote:](https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/ethan-allen-tale-outhouse/)
>On Sept. 25, 1775, the British captured Ethan Allen while he ran a fool’s errand to Canada. Fresh from his stunning capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Ethan Allen thought he could capture Montreal. He led an invasion into Canada with a small band of his Green Mountain Boys, but he timed the mission badly and didn’t think it through. The British seized Allen and held him on a series of prison ships, then moved him to England. As an officer of the Continental Army he would have been executed, but the British feared reprisals.
So the British held Allen for two years in England, then sent him back to America as part of a prisoner exchange.
>**Ethan Allen Returns to England**
>Ethan Allen returned to England after the war, and the British made fun of him. One day they put a picture of George Washington in an outhouse where Allen would be sure to see it. He used the outhouse but said nothing about the picture. Then the British asked him about it and Allen said it was a very appropriate place for an Englishman to hang the picture because “nothing will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.”
No one has ever over hyped a victory like the english with Waterloo.
It wasn’t decisive at all, Prussians made the day, Russians had won the war, but the UK won’t stop jerking off of it since then.
The truth is that the victorious British and their allies were pitiful compared to the losing French. Everyone knows about Napoleon, but who thinks about Wellington and Blucher?
Wellington was Irish COYBIG 🇮🇪
God damn, I hate their actions but I love their style
The wit of a true Irishman.