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Though pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to his published dispatches, and he refused to add further to his official correspondence, famously remarking that: 'The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the...
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The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is, reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were, awarded a unique badge, a figure of a Sphinx, to mark their service in Egypt in 1801.
It was a fitting distinction, for the successful campaign was a remarkable one, fought far from home by a British army which had so far not distinguished itself in battle against...
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