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Issue 6: April 2007. Articles. The Duke of Wellington, the Peninsular War and the War of 1812. Part II: Reinforcements, Views of the War and Command in North America. By John R. Grodzinski. Despite the drama regarding grain, the War of 1812 continued to be of secondary concern to the British Government until Napoleon abdicated in 1814.
- Horse Sense
- House Sitter
- The Name Game
- Military School
- Breaking Up The Band
- Buying A Job
- How Do You Like Me Now?
- Conehead
- Co-Inn-Cidence
- Buckle Up
Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was born on the first of May, 1769. Though he would become an icon of the British Empire, the Duke was actually born in Dublin, Ireland. This fact caused Wellington great embarrassment, and prompted him to remark, “Because a man is born in a stable, it does not make him a horse.” (It should come as li...
Wellington’s antipathy to the Irish did not prevent him from entering the Irish Parliament. Running on a pro-English, anti-independence platform, Wellington was elected MP for Trim, County Meath, in 1879. Wikimedia Commons, Francis Wheatley
At his birth, Wellington’s name was, in fact, Arthur Wesley. He changed it to Wellesley in 1798, just as his military career was skyrocketing, thinking it appeared more refined. Shutterstock
Just as his brothers had been, Wellington was sent to study at Eton. He was socially awkward, and his academic performance left something to be desired. Convinced he would never amount to anything, his mother withdrew him from Eton and sent him to a French Military Academy. Shutterstock
Wellington initially held aspirations of becoming a musician, but he burnt his violin in a fit of anger when his marriage proposal to Kitty Pakenham was rejected by her brother, the Earl of Longford. From that point on, the military was his only true muse. Pixabay
His dreams of musical stardom shattered, Wellington borrowed some money from his brother and used it to buy himself the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel with the 33rd Regiment (because that was something you could do back then). Shutterstock
After a brief detour in the Netherlands, Wellington was shipped to India, where he spent ten years quashing insurrections and amassing a personal fortune of £42,000, which was nothing to sniff at back then. With the new rank of General and wealth in his favor, Wellington once again asked for Kitty Pakenham’s hand in marriage, and it was happily gra...
Glaswegians have their own creative way of honoring the Duke. The statue of Wellington on horseback that stands in front of Glasgow’s Royal Exchange can usually be found wearing a traffic cone on its head. Placing a cone on the Duke’s head has been a popular prank since the 1980s, with some even using it as an opportunity to raise awareness of poli...
On his return home from India, Wellington’s ship stopped briefly at St. Helena, the same remote island where his arch-nemesis, Napoleon Bonaparte, would be exiled years later. Pixabay
Back in Europe, Wellington took part in numerous battles around Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Unlike other commanders of the time, Wellington freely rode into the frontlines with his troops. This was risky, however. At the Battle of Orthez in 1814, allegedly while teasing one of his men for being hit with a stray bullet, Wellington was st...
Jul 12, 2012 · In the third prong of the attack, U.S. General Henry Dearborn marched with at least 6,000 troops that November from Albany to Plattsburgh, New York, on the shore of Lake Champlain. Their goal was ...
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Arthur Wellesley – better known as the Duke of Wellington, a title he was granted in 1814 – was born in Dublin on May 1, 1769, the same year as Napoleon. He joined the British Army in 1787 and served in the Netherlands, India and Denmark before rising to prominence in the Peninsular War. He led the allied forces to victory against the ...
May 3, 2022 · They Failed—and Saved Canada. A year into the War of 1812, the United States hatched a plan to invade Canada and take the city of Montreal. by Jon Guttman 5/3/2022. The original U.S. battle plan was for two American forces to meet and take the city of Kingston at the mouth of the Cataraqui and Saint Lawrence Rivers on Lake Ontario.
Jun 18, 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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Nov 13, 2014 · Furious, Wellington wrote to the secretary of war, Lord Bathurst on 29 July 1813 that: “Our Vagabond Soldiers” had been “Totally knocked up”. A little later, 2 July 1813, he expanded on his theme: “It is quite impossible for me or any other man to command a British Army under the existing system. We have in the service the scum of the ...
