Wellington’s Secret

When Arthur Wellesley was serving in India, he brokered a truce between two Indian princes, one of whom was the Nizam of Hyderabad. The Nizam’s Prime Minister offered Wellesley a vast bribe to betray the details, but Wellesley, having raised the minister’s hopes by asking him if could keep a secret, promptly dashed them by saying that he could, too.

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