Error is ever the sequence of haste.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.