NEVER LOST A GUN.
In the Earl of Ellesmere's “ Personal Recollections of the Duke of Wellington” appears the following interesting statementl asked the Duke of Wellington whether he ever had made any rough computation of the number of guns he had taken in war. “ No,” he said, but I should guess somewhere about three thousand. I took a prodigious quantity at Oporto, ami the whole French battering train at Ciudad Rodigro, and at Vittoria and Waterloo I took every. fun they had in the field. What, owever, is more extraordinary, I never lost one in my life. There were three light guns attached to the Portuguese cavalry taken near Madrid, after the battle of Salamanca, on the night before we entered the town, but they were immediately recovered ; six guns were at one time lost at Albuera, but were also recovered.”
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 16 February 1904, Page 2
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141NEVER LOST A GUN. Kaikoura Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 16 February 1904, Page 2
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