Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)

Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)(wellsoc.org)

33 points by backuprestore 4 hours ago | 7 comments

Slightly more readable link: https://cns.gatech.edu/CNS/GTaccountProcs.pdf

delichon 2 hours ago |

Likely apocryphal. It isn't in the massive official "Despatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington" and the exaggerated, humorous style is not characteristic.

morsch 1 hour ago | |

Thanks, I read through a few pages and found it a more interesting read than the original link.

E.g. here he's complaining to the undersecretary of state:

https://archive.org/details/dispatchesoffiel10welluoft/page/...

Here (and a few lines on the page before) is a long letter with his advice on how to reconstitute the (allied) government of Spain:

https://archive.org/details/dispatchesoffiel10welluoft/page/...

jhkrug 26 minutes ago |

An AI debunking. https://gemini.google.com/share/3ff808eaa2ef

RobotToaster 2 hours ago |

Technically from Sir Arthur Wellesley, he wasn't made duke until 1814.

cjs_ac 1 hour ago |

Why would Wellington have to answer to the Foreign Office for the administration of the forces under his command when that was the responsibility of the War Office?

ggm 1 hour ago |

Entertaining if fictive. His comments to his army and his own role in the victory are I hope better attested to.

BigTTYGothGF 1 hour ago |

There's no way that's not a joke written many decades or more later.