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1 day ago · 1. 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United ...
- Duke of Wellington (Disambiguation)
Buildings. The Duke of Wellington, Marylebone, a pub in...
- Military Career of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC,...
- Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July...
- Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India...
- Battle of Roliça
At the Battle of Roliça (17 August 1808), the first battle...
- Second Anglo-Maratha War
Political map of India in 1792, compared to yellow borders...
- Tory
A Tory (/ ˈ t ɔː r i /) is an individual who supports a...
- Apsley House
Apsley House on an 1869 map. The neighbouring houses were...
- English Wars
The English Wars (Danish: Englandskrigene, Swedish:...
- Rotten Borough
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which until 1832...
- Duke of Wellington (Disambiguation)
1 day ago · The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the ...
- 18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815, (2 years, 7 months, 4 weeks and 2 days)
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1 day ago · Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 [b] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
- John Adams
- John Adams
2 days ago · This new House was created by the marriage between Maria Theresa and Francis Stephan, Duke of Lorraine. (Both of them were great-grandchildren of Habsburg emperor Ferdinand III, but from different empresses.) This new House was a cadet branch of the female line of the House of Habsburg and the male line of the House of Lorraine.
- 11th century
1 day ago · United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
1 day ago · William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the ...
1 day ago · Evangelicalism (/ ˌ iː v æ n ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ k əl ɪ z əm, ˌ ɛ v æ n-,-ə n-/), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as ...