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The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.
The Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister of Great Britain Already having made strides in a political career, Wellington ...
The Waterseller of Seville, about 1620, by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), 421⁄3in by 32in, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London. The Duke of Wellington says: I have known this painting all ...
We are pleased to announce the winner for the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History. We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History ...
the film takes place on Aug. 21 when London’s National Gallery is stunned when Franciso de Goya’s priceless “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington” vanishes overnight, in the museum’s only ...
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history.
The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but has never faced Napoleon. Wellington stands between Napoleon with a makeshift ...
Robert Churchwell Sr. was the first black journalist employed at a white-owned metropolitan newspaper in the South.
The former Halifax building on Duke Street in Wellington has gone up for sale along with an empty shop unit next door - with ...
The board members for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History have decided to award this year’s medal to John Gooch for his book ‘Mussolini’s War’ John Gooch’s Mussolini’s War (Penguin Books ...