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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
...Wellington's just showed up! Wheeee! (Not Wellington yet, of course, just "General Wellesley.") And I believe Nelson's still around...he survived Trafalgar if memory serves. I would like to see them have scenes together though I dare say both their egos wouldn't fit in one room.
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According to "Wellington : the years of the sword" by Elizabeth Longford, they met just once in real life (both waiting to see the Secretary of War), Wellington described their initial conversation:
"... it was almost all on his side, and all about himself, and, really, in a style so vain and silly as to surprise and almost disgust me."
Nelson then left the room for a moment, discovered who Wellington was, and on his return:
"All that I thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked with good sense ... in fact, he talked like an officer and a statesman ... I don't know that I ever had a conversation that interested me more."