Arthur Wellesley (1. Duke of Wellington) (1769-1852)
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- Name (English)
- Arthur Wellesley (1. Duke of Wellington)
- Short name
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Year of birth
- 1769
- Year of death
- 1852
- Short Description
- "Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister. He is one of the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Wellesley was born in Dublin into the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive lords lieutenant of Ireland. He was also elected as a member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He was a colonel by 1796 and saw action in the Netherlands and in India, where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799 and, as a newly appointed major-general, won a decisive victory over the Maratha Confederacy at the Battle of Assaye in 1803." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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Vivatband "La belle Alliance.", Schlacht bei Waterloo 18. Juni 1815
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The First of May 1851
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Walker und Boutall: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington und Sir Robert Peel
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of...
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Kaffeelöffel als Souvenir der Befreiungskriege (nach 1815)
Auf dem Stiel im Medaillon...
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