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Battle Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
- When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
- Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
- Without cavalry, battles are without result.
- Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
- I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.
- It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.
- I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
- Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on…
- Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
- Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
- All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
- Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent,…
- Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle…
- When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary…
- When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
- In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
- Great battles are won with artillery.
- The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
- You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
- Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.
- The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other…
- This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I…
- I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
- The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
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