FOOTNOTES[1]Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817.[2]These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: “There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña,hewould have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir John Moore lived,hisname would have been blazoned on the scroll of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s power at Waterloo.”
FOOTNOTES[1]Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817.[2]These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: “There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña,hewould have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir John Moore lived,hisname would have been blazoned on the scroll of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s power at Waterloo.”
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[1]Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817.
[1]Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817.
[2]These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: “There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña,hewould have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir John Moore lived,hisname would have been blazoned on the scroll of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s power at Waterloo.”
[2]These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: “There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña,hewould have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir John Moore lived,hisname would have been blazoned on the scroll of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s power at Waterloo.”