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Hace 2 días · 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 statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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One of them, Anne, married as her second husband Lord Charles Bentinck. They were great-great-grandparents of Queen Elizabeth II. William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington. As Lord Wellesley had no legitimate children, the English barony of 1797 and the marquessate became extinct on his death in 1842.
- Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington
- Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington
- Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, in the County of Meath
- Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington
30 de abr. de 2024 · Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, Irish-born commander of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and later prime minister of Great Britain (1828–30). He gained military prominence in India, won successes in the Peninsular War in Spain, and triumphed over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
Hace 2 días · 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. [e]
15 de abr. de 2024 · Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley was a British statesman and government official. Wellesley, as governor of Madras (now Chennai) and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797–1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and, as lord lieutenant of Ireland (1821–28, 1833–34), attempted.
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16 de abr. de 2024 · The Battle of Camden (16 August 1780) was a major battle of the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It saw a British army under Lord Charles Cornwallis decisively defeat an American force under General Horatio Gates, thereby securing British control of South Carolina and allowing Cornwallis to invade North Carolina.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Charles Wesley (born December 18, 1707, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England—died March 29, 1788, London) was an English clergyman, poet, and hymn writer who, with his elder brother John, started the Methodist movement in the Church of England. Charles Wesley, the youngest and third surviving son of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, entered ...
