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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]
The Duke of Wellington called him "a rough foul-mouthed devil as ever lived", but found him capable. Picton came to public attention initially for his cruelty during his governorship of Trinidad, as a result of which he was put on trial in England for approving the illegal picketing of a 14-year-old girl, Luisa Calderón. [2]
The Canningites remained influential, and the Duke of Wellington hastened to include Palmerston, Huskisson, Charles Grant, William Lamb, and the Earl of Dudley in the government he subsequently formed. However, a dispute between Wellington and Huskisson over the issue of parliamentary representation for Manchester and Birmingham led to the ...
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, died on 14 September 1852, aged 83.He was the commander of British forces and their allies in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, which finally ended the Napoleonic Wars, and served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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.
A coronation, a reignited race row and a controversial memoir by the Duke of Sussex shaped the royal family’s 2023. It was the King’s first full calendar year as monarch, as he bedded into the ...
The Duke was an ardent supporter of the Protestant cause in Ireland and returned to Berlin in August, believing that the government, led by the Duke of Wellington, would deal firmly with the Irish. [57] In January 1829, the Wellington government announced that it would introduce a Catholic emancipation bill to conciliate the Irish.