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Há 1 dia · 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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Há 5 dias · 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.
Há 1 dia · Arthur Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, was a renowned British military commander who is best remembered for his victory over Napoleon at th...
Há 4 horas · Touted as the world’s tallest piece of free-standing public art, the Spire of Dublin rises three times the height of the original pillar, which had glorified the British naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson (as it happens, another key figure of the Napoleonic Wars, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was born in Dublin, into a family belonging to the powerful minority Anglo-Irish Protestant ...
Há 2 dias · 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.
Wellington was an Anglo-Irish upper class Tory snob, who believed whole heatedly in (and helped create) the British Empire. Also, his wife's brother, Edward Pakenham, was killed by American forces under Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans (and by some accounts Wellington was more fond of Pakenham than his wife).
Há 3 dias · Wellington (1847-1895) had become an engineer the old-fashioned way, by apprenticing under a practicing engineer in Boston. Next, he worked as a leveler and assistant engineer under the noted ...
