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OMG Sherer is such a Wellie fanboy I'm surprised he survived the war...
(At Busaco)
About this time, Lord Wellington, with a numerous staff gallopped up, and delivered his orders to General Hill, immediately in front of our corps ; I therefore distinctly overheard him. " If they attempt this point again, Hill, you will give them a volley, and charge bayonets ; but don't let your people follow them too far down the hill."
I was particularly struck with the style of this order, so decided, so manly, and breathing no doubt as to the repulse of any attack ; it confirmed confidence. Lord Wellington's simplicity of manner in the delivery of orders, and in command, is quite that of an able man. He has nothing of the truncheon about him ; nothing fullmouthed, important, or fussy : his orders, on the field, are all short, quick, clear, and to the purpose.
From: Moyle Sherer, Recollections of the Peninsula
(At Busaco)
About this time, Lord Wellington, with a numerous staff gallopped up, and delivered his orders to General Hill, immediately in front of our corps ; I therefore distinctly overheard him. " If they attempt this point again, Hill, you will give them a volley, and charge bayonets ; but don't let your people follow them too far down the hill."
I was particularly struck with the style of this order, so decided, so manly, and breathing no doubt as to the repulse of any attack ; it confirmed confidence. Lord Wellington's simplicity of manner in the delivery of orders, and in command, is quite that of an able man. He has nothing of the truncheon about him ; nothing fullmouthed, important, or fussy : his orders, on the field, are all short, quick, clear, and to the purpose.
From: Moyle Sherer, Recollections of the Peninsula
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