Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman.
18th June 1815, British forces led by the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon and his army at Waterloo, helped enormously by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher of the Prussian army.