Didn't we meet them in Spain and bate them?
Sure, they are are hardly worth counting." "You will find them fight very much better now they have their emperor with them.

You know, Wellington had all his work to beat them." "Yes, but he did bate them, your honor." "That's true enough, Denis; but his troops now are old soldiers, most of whom have been fighting for years, while a great part of our force will be no better than militia." "They won't fight any the worse for that, your honor," Denis said confidently.

"We will bate them whenever we meet them.

You see if we don't." "We will try anyhow, Denis; and if all the regiments were as good as our own I should feel very sure about it.

I wish, though, we were going to fight by ourselves; we know what we can do, but we do not know how the Belgians and Dutch and Germans who will be with us can be depended upon." "If I were the duke I wouldn't dipend on them at all, at all, your honor.