“After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington – who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth – surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, “Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.”

“After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington – who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth – surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, “Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.”

— Chris Pourteau