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.

In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition ...

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 Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton. —The Duke of Wellington “It is probably significant,” writes G. F. Lamb in The Happiest Days, “that the best-known statement ...

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

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 ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — “The Duke,” a comedy about an audacious real-life art heist, is the next screening in the Movies With Spirit ... “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington” vanishes overnight ...