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  1. 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.

  2. Jun 15, 2015 · De Lancey was at Wellington’s side on the day of his greatest triumph—June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The duke survived; the American didn’t. Struck by a cannonball, and nursed at the ...

  3. 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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  4. 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 ...

  5. Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.

    • 18 June 1815; 209 years ago (1815-06-18)
    • Coalition victory
  6. The same is true of Paddy Griffith, ed., Wellington as Commander: The Iron Duke's Generalship (Sussex: Antony Bird Publications, 1985). Neville Thompson, Wellington after Waterloo (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986) makes no reference to the exchange. In a remark that may reveal one cause for the exchange's eclipse, Weller noted in his ...

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  8. What Wellington had to do on Sunday, June 18, 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo was use caution and prevent his subordinates from making mistakes that might cost him the battle. Only when he was absolutely sure that the tide of battle had shifted in his favor did he switch to the offensive. The duke regarded Waterloo as a close fought battle.

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