1st Duke of Wellington
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Competition:
Britain’s Heroes
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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 of the United Kingdom. He is among the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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Url / Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington
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Photo author:
By Thomas Lawrence - English Heritage Imageshttp://artcontrarian.blogspot.ca/2013_01_01_archive.htmlhttps://alaintruong2014.wordpress.com/category/exhibitions/#post-15968 image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15339542
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