Beef Wellington's history goes back longer than you might think. The luxurious British steak meal has a complicated and ...

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 government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an ...

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 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.

Wellington’s men occupied the outlying farm buildings on both flanks, and the crest of a ridge in the center near the village of Waterloo ... paces away when the Duke gave the order to fire.

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In the life of George Stephenson, the distinguished railroad engineer, it is stated that for a long long period of time the Duke of Wellington would not trust himself behind a locomotive.