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I was looking into some of the criticism people tend to level at the Duke of Wellington, and while I was looking for the answers to my questions I ended up writing this rant.

Galloping at Everything.
Wellington’s criticism of the cavalry is well known.

But when I looked into it

I found there was more to the story.

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The text was written to General Hill about General Slade’s reverse at the hands of General Lallemand at Maguilla in 1811, where the British cavalry overcharged without support and though initially successful ran into the French supports and where roundly beaten.

He wrote:

18th June 1812.
“I entirely concur with you in the necessity of inquiring into it (Slades affair). It is occasioned entirely by a trick our officers of cavalry have acquired of galloping at everything, and then galloping back as fast as they gallop on the enemy.

They never… Think of maneuvering before an enemy – so little that one would think they cannot manuever, e