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Duke of Wellington is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The name derived from Wellington in Somerset. The title was created in 1814 for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington (1769–1852; born as The Hon. Arthur Wesley), the Anglo-Irish military commander who is best known for leading the decisive victory with Field Marshal von Blücher over Napoleon's forces at Waterloo in ...
Wellesley (Wesley), Arthur (1769–1852), 1st duke of Wellington , soldier and politician, was born 1 May 1769 at Mornington House, 6 Merrion Street, Dublin, the third surviving son of Garret Wesley (qv) (1735–81), 1st earl of Mornington, and his wife, Anne (née Hill; 1742–1831), daughter of 1st Viscount Dungannon (qv).
Arthur Wellesley I duque de Wellington pintado por el artista Thomas Lawrence, meses antes de la batalla de Waterloo. Arthur Wellesley ( Dublín, 1 de mayo de 1769- Walmer, 14 de septiembre de 1852), más conocido, a partir de 1814, por su título de duque de Wellington, fue un militar, político y estadista británico de origen irlandés, con ...
17 de feb. de 2011 · Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was probably Britain's greatest military commander, but he was also perhaps one of her worst prime ministers. Fortunately his premiership was ...
Wellesley was the fourth son of Garrett Wesley or Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and used the name Wesley until 1798. He was himself raised to the peerage as Viscount Wellington in 1809, followed by further ennoblements as Earl of Wellington 1812, Marquis of Wellington the same year, and Duke of Wellington in 1814.
This triumphant portrait of the Duke of Wellington dominates the Waterloo Chamber. Lawrence was specially commissioned by George IV to paint a pantheon of military heroes, diplomats and powerful heads of state responsible for the defeat of Napoleon initially in 1814 and ultimately (after his escape from Elba) at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
08 Nov 2022. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an icon of 19th-century Britain, perhaps best known for his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Over the course of his illustrious life, the Duke became a military hero, a statesman and a two-time Prime Minister of Britain. The relics and repercussions of the Duke’s life ...
