Napoleon is supposed, at some point, to have dismissed Wellington as 'a mere sepoy general' or some such.
I was wondering where that was first recorded, and indeed what the French phrase might be.
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Thanks, Garry. The reference at least indicates the general assumption on both sides of the Channel -albeit a century later- that Napoleon had coined the phrase; whether or not he was being given credit for some anonymous hack's sharpness of pen.