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Hace 3 días · Footnote 31 Charlotte reports, for instance, in the disdainful voice of her fictional version of the figure Charles Wellesley Footnote 32 for The Young Men’s Magazine (October 1830), of a visit to Emily’s Parrysland, scathingly concluding, ‘I found my visit intolerably dull as much as I fear the reader will find this account of it.’
Hace 2 días · Lord Wellesley called upon me there many years after; the house was then occupied by my brother-in-law, Mr. Eden, whom I was visiting. His lordship showed me the place where these illustrious friends sat when they met for the last time. Mr. Pitt, he said, was much emaciated and enfeebled, but retained his gaiety and his constitutionally sanguine disposition, and even expressed his confident ...
Hace 3 días · Survey of London: Volume 11, Chelsea, Part IV: the Royal Hospital.Originally published by London County Council, London, 1927. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Hace 2 días · May 26, 2024. In the summer of 1812, as Napoleon‘s Grande Armée was embarking on its ill-fated invasion of Russia, another momentous battle was unfolding on the plains of western Spain. At Salamanca, on July 22nd, an Anglo-Portuguese army under the command of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, won a stunning victory over the ...
Hace 15 horas · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
Hace 15 horas · ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE. The castle of Windsor appears first in history in the Domesday Survey in connexion with the manor of Clewer, which was held of the king by Ralf son of Seifrid, but had formerly belonged to Harold the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4½ hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' The castle was thus a new work, and there are ...
Hace 4 días · He died on 18 June 1813, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir Peter Pole, bart., M.P. for Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 1819–26, who sold the manor in 1837 to Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington. The present owner is his grandson, Arthur Charles Wellesley the fourth Duke. Barrett of Belhouse.
