text:  The Allies on the other hand were a motley assemblage like Hannibal's at Cannae or Wellington's at Waterloo composed of the troops of many different nations speaking different languages trained to different discipline but recently assembled together and under the orders of a stranger general one of those haughty islanders little in general inured to war but whose cold or supercilious manners had so often caused jealousies to arise in the best cemented confederacies