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'.

Wellington ordered his commanding Royal Engineer, Colonel Sir John Carmichael-Smyth, to prepare a map of the area of Waterloo. It was constructed in 1815 and partly drawn by Major John Sperling RE.

Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory ...

Thus they made the Waterloo campaign as inevitable as it ... Edward Pakenham, was the Duke of Wellington’s brother-in-law. More gravely, Britain and France had fought each other for no fewer ...

The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best ... The two meet at Waterloo where the fate of Europe will be decided.

Beef Wellington has been around since the early 1800s, believed to have first been created to celebrate the victory at Waterloo and the man who won the battle, the first Duke of Wellington ...

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815 and Our Boys respectively. The winners emerged from a strong shortlist of authors writing on military history. At the award ceremony the winning authors were given the ...

The Duke of Wellington says: I have known this painting all my life ... thus ending the latter’s five-year usurpation of the Spanish throne in a prelude to the climactic Waterloo. The 200 pictures ...

At Waterloo (June 18, 1815), a force of British, Dutch, Belgian, Nassau, Brunswick and Hanoverian troops under the command of the British Duke of Wellington, with support from a Prussian army ...