Wellington is quoted discussing, sometimes informally, the details of his military career: "'I arrived at Quatre Bras after the first action; when I saw the Prince of Oranges I said "Well! what's doing?" He said, "We've had a smart skirmish, but I don't think the French will attack us again today". I put up my glass, and saw some French troops ... I said, "Why! you'll be attacked in 5 minutes": and within that time the attack commenced.' ?Baron Gurney asked whether the story was true, of the Duke's having ridden out to Blucher the night before the Battle of Waterloo, and returned on the same horse? Duke. "No! that was not so; I did not see Blucher the day before Waterloo.'" He goes on to discuss Blucher's character: "'Now Blucher knew nothing of strategy: no man fought better.' Discussing the state of France in more general terms, he says: "'When Charles X quitted France, the army was in such a state, that the Prussians might have marched on Paris...'"