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Wellington : a personal history

Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Perseus Books, [1999], ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This is the biography of a general, remembered most for his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Wellington was also elected Prime Minister in 1827, was an influential adviser to kings and queens, and  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Arthur Wellesley Wellington, Duke of; Arthur Wellesley ((of)) Wellington
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 0738201480 9780738201481
OCLC Number: 42052298
Notes: Previously published: Great Britain : HarperCollins, c1997.
Description: xiii, 460 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 17691815 * Eton, Dublin and Angers, 176987 * An Officer in the 33rd, 178793 * The First Campaign, 17945 * A Voyage to India, 17968 * The Tiger of Mysore, 1799 * The Governor of Mysore, 1799 * The Sultans Palace, 18001 * Assaye, 18025 * Return to London, 18056 * Kitty Pakenham, 17901806 * Ireland and Denmark, 18067 * Portugal, 1808 * Board of Enquiry, 1808 * Across the Douro, 1809 * A Whole Host of Marshals, 180910 * From Bussaco to El Bodon, 181011 * Life at Headquarters, 181012 * Badajoz, Salamanca and Madrid, 1812 * Retreat to Portugal, 1812 * From Vitoria to the Frontier, 181213 * St Jean de Luz, 1813 * In London Again, 1814 * Paris and Vienna, 181415 * Brussels, 1815 * Waterloo, 1815 181552 * The Ambassador, 1815 * Cambrai and Vitry, 181518 * Stratfield Saye, 181820 * King George IV and Queen Caroline, 18201 * Husband and Wife, 1821 * Vienna and Verona, 18224 * St Petersburg and the Northern Counties, * The Prime Minister, 18289 * Battersea Fields and Scotland Yard, 1829 * The Death of the King, 182930 * Riots and Repression, 18302 * A Bogy to the Mob, 1832 * Oxford University and Apsley House, 18324 * Lady Friends, 1834 * The Foreign Secretary, 18346 * Portraits and Painters, 183050 * Life at Walmer Castle, 183050 * The Young Queen, 18379 * Grand Old Man, 183950 * The Horse Guards and the House of Lords, 184250 * Hyde Park Corner, 18456 * Disturbers of the Peace, 184651 * Growing Old, 18501 * Last Days, 18512 * The Way to St Pauls, 1852
Responsibility: Christopher Hibbert.

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