Excerpt from Military Memoirs of Field Marshal, the Duke of Wellington, Vol. 1 of 2Of all the wars in which he was engaged, peace, the mother and the nurse of all that is good for man, was the blessed end!The difficulty of doing any justice in such narrow limits to the development of a military character so emi nent and unrivalled as that of the Duke of Wellington, has been severely felt by the Author. TO produce a closely digested narrative Of his achievements, suitable for the general reader, is the Object of these volumes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.