• I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

    Duke of Wellington: I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on 
the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
    Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1837). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.404