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Jun 18, 2015 · Rory Muir—. The Duke of Wellington felt far from triumphant after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, famously remarking that “I don’t know what it is to lose a battle, but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain one with the loss of so many of one’s friends.”. A few weeks later in Paris, at the pinnacle of his fame, he told a ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Even if Wellington did say “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton,” realistically, the statement could hardly be further from the truth. Wellington led what has since become known as a multinational army. More than half of Wellington’s force consisted of Hanoverians, Saxons, Dutchmen, Belgians, and Prussians. Only a ...
Nov 13, 2014 · Wellington said in later life to lady Salisbury, that by the end of the Peninsular war that he had beaten the army into such good shape that…. “I could have done anything with that army it was in such perfect order.”. In 1814 he lost that most complete & perfect army, it was split up and much reduced in number.
1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as Prime ...
Mar 8, 2015 · This Sunday evening had ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s last desperate attempt to defeat the Allied powers (Britain, Prussia, the German states, and the Dutch/Belgians). The dead, dying, and wounded lay far thicker on the field of Waterloo on the evening of 18 June 1815 than on the Somme on the evening of 1 July 1916 around 55,000 of them across ...
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Aug 13, 2015 · Wellington was a major figure in British politics for more than thirty years after his return from France at the end of 1818, but his contribution was disparaged and neglected by following generations who preferred to concentrate on the glamorous figure of the military hero and who accepted the liberal interpretation of political history between Waterloo and the Crimean War at face value.
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June 2015. Illustration by Tim O’Brien. "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m ...
