Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
Battle of Assaye. Outnumbered at least 5-1, with fewer heavy weapons, and having to cross a river to make contact with the enemy, and exhausted having just arrived on the scene from a forced march, Wellesley's troops nonetheless broke the opposing Maratha army.
So Wellington beat some Indians once. Gah. And he was present at Waterloo where there came a final end to the career of the man who ruled Europe with an iron fist for twenty years. Good for him.

Wellington and Napoleon, it all sounds like that story of the mouse and the Elephant crossing a bridge, the mouse looking up to the elephant and saying: 'gosh, aren't we making a lot of noise together..'