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Beef Wellington's history goes back longer than you might think. The luxurious British steak meal has a complicated and uncertain past.
In 1839, Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, hosted a sumptuous supper to commemorate his victory over Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815, an annual tradition he’d started in 1820.
Future Duke of Wellington, Arthur Mornington, now Marquess of Duoro, welcomed a baby with his wife Hayley Whitehead two years ago. David M. Benett/Getty Images. Any aristocrat worth their place on The ...
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton.—The Duke of Wellington "It is probably significant," writes G. F. Lamb in The Happiest Days, "that the best-known ...
For decades, Glaswegians have capped the Duke of Wellington statue outside the Gallery of Modern Art with a traffic cone. Locals have battled the council over the placement of the cone for years ...
The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History is awarded on an annual basis for the best English language writing in the discipline. This year, we had a highly competitive field of over 50 entries ...
Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2019. Wellington at Waterloo. See the winner and shortlist for this year's award. The panel of judges have exceptionally this year awarded two medals: ...