Although Wellington is remembered as a British military hero, and was honoured with land and titles in England during his life, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) was actually born in Dublin. However ...

IT IS nearly 250 years since the birth of Arthur Wellesley, the future 1st Duke of Wellington, on May 1, 1769. The man who vanquished Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo has always been seen as ...

The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.

The sherry dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria, and perhaps some of Abraham Lincoln's presidency A bottle of sherry owned by the first Duke of Wellington has been sold for just over £1,500 ...

The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton. —The Duke of Wellington “It is probably significant,” writes G. F. Lamb in The Happiest Days, “that the best-known statement ...

The Duke of Wellington, whose famous ancestor won the Battle of Waterloo, died today aged 99. Arthur Wellesley - the 8th Duke of Wellington also known as the Prince of Waterloo - died peacefully ...