LONDON, England – In the lead up to the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, a new war memorial to honour the 24,000 soldiers of the Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces who were injured, died or went m ...

LONDON — Who commands the ground? This is the kind of question that any serious military commander needs to ask. In the case of Apsley House, once the home of the Duke of Wellington, victor at ...

Nearly 200 years of history tells us that the battle of Waterloo was a stunning victory for Britain's Duke of Wellington and a crushing defeat for France's Napoleon Bonaparte. But Wellington's report ...

Did you know that there was heavy Irish involvement in the Battle of Waterloo? In fact, the winning General at the Battle, the Duke of Wellington, was Irish, as was one-third of the British army of ...

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The Duke of Wellington was one of the most famous Britons of the 19th century. His victory over Napoleon at Waterloo altered the course of history. General, politician, lover, outsider, this military ...

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 on English ...