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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Detail of a bronze relief panel, depicting the Battle of Waterloo, beneath Carlo Marochetti's statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow. The Spanish government made Wellington commander-in-chief of all allied armies, providing an extra 21,000 Spanish troops after Salamanca. [71] Although not completely undefeated, he never lost a major battle. [72]
Duke of Wellington, centre, flanked on his left by Lord Uxbridge in hussar uniform. On the image's far left, Cpl. Styles of the Royal Dragoons flourishes the eagle of the 105e Ligne . The wounded Prince of Orange is carried from the field in the foreground.
Kempton Bunton (14 June 1904–April 1976) was an English man who confessed to taking Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961. [3] [2] [4] The story of Bunton and the painting was the subject of the October 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke, and the 2020 film The Duke.
In 1961, the UK was gripped by the theft of a Goya painting from the National Gallery in London — a story being retold in The Duke, in cinemas now.
The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts and other military defences built in secrecy to defend Lisbon during the Peninsular War.Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Colonel Richard Fletcher and his Portuguese workers between November 1809 and September 1810, and used to stop Marshal Masséna's 1810 ...
The Duke of Wellington's funeral car, without the canopy or its supporting halberds. The original design for Wellington's hearse had been commissioned from the royal undertakers , Messers Ranting of St James , but the submitted proposal was rejected by the Earl Marshal , the 13th Duke of Norfolk , who was responsible for the ceremonial aspects ...