the first Duke of Wellington. Beef Wellington may have been named as a celebration of Wellesley's military exploits, which included defeating Napoleon's army at the famous Battle of Waterloo in ...

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.

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 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.

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 ...

A new museum is to be established to tell the story of Irish soldiers in the British Army down the centuries. The £13.6 ...

Beef Wellington can be unforgiving, but there is one step you need to follow if you want this dish at its best. Before ...

The box will go up for sale next week for £20,000. (Image: ROB DAVIES) Now, they've got their hands on an "earlier dated" scrimshaw sketch box that they have traced to Royal Academy artist, Waterloo ...