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Há 1 dia · Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French Empire at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813.
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Há 1 dia · Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was a leading military commander, politician and prime minister in 19th-century Britain. He is best remembered today for his actions during the Napoleonic Wars, most notably for victory at the 1815 battle of Waterloo. “He was second only to Napoleon in his military skill at the time,” says ...
Há 2 dias · In 1921, he was created a marquess. On Bonar Law 's retirement as Prime Minister in 1923, Curzon was a contender for the office but was passed over in favour of Stanley Baldwin. He remained as Foreign Secretary until 1924 when the Baldwin government fell, and died a year later at the age of 66. Early life.
Há 5 dias · To obtain a deluxe leatherbound edition of STUDIES ON THE NAPOLEONIC WARS, subscribe to Castalia History. ings and public dinners offered by various city companies and patriotic societies to the representatives of insurgent Spain. The fact was that there existed a small, but not quite negligible, number of Spaniards who might know who the Baron ...
Há 2 dias · Military intelligence about France's plan to occupy Goa caused the British Governor-general at Calcutta, the Marquis of Wellesley to send troops. Goa was briefly a British Protectorate from 1799 to 1813.
16 de mar. de 2024 · Bombay (Mumbai), once an important city on the west coast of India in the colonial period had two famous and well sculpted statues of Queen Victoria, a standing marble statue of Queen Victoria (Sculptor?) at the VT terminus now called '' Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus'', a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the other one in sitting posture o riginally with tall canopy - height 42 in all made by ...
4 de mar. de 2024 · Intercepted correspondence from India : containing dispatches from Marquis Wellesley and from the governor general in council to the secret committee of the Court of Directors to Major-Gen. Wellesley, &c., together with reports of the state of our India possessions, sent by a French emissary to General Decaen, governor of the ...