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2 giorni fa · Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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4 giorni fa · Anglo-allied Army order of battle. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Combined British, Dutch and Hanoverian forces were under the supreme command of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
1 giorno fa · Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence. By the end of 1812, the large army that had invaded the Russian Empire, the Grande Armée, had ceased to exist. Unable to resist the oncoming Russians, the French had to evacuate East Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
3 giorni fa · Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 is the first of two volumes based on exhaustive research on Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Rory Muir – to be precise, it is based on 30 years work on the subject.
4 giorni fa · Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, would suffer fewer losses during his campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula (1808–14), which not only reconquered Spain and Portugal but also tied down a far larger number of French troops.
5 giorni fa · John Darlington. Thu, 16 May 2024, 12:00 pm GMT-4 · 5-min read. London possesses at least nine monuments celebrating the lives of two of the country’s military heroes: Arthur Wellesley, the...
3 giorni fa · It was at the Colonial Office, at that time "No. 14, Downing Street," in a small waiting-room on the right hand upon entering, that the two heroes—the former then plain Sir Arthur Wellesley—both wanting an interview with the Secretary of State—were accidentally brought into each other's presence.
