"Perhaps a more authentic version of this exchange comes from the diary of J. W. Croker, a friend of Wellington, written on 8 December
1818, in which he recounts a conversation with Horace Seymour, the man who carried the wounded Uxbridge from the battlefield.Seymour recalled that when Uxbridge was hit he cried out, "I have got it at last," to which the Duke of Wellington responded, "No?