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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, William Williams, 1st Baronet of Kars, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, Richard Dacres, Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, George Pollock, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, Lord George Lennox, John Fox Burgoyne, William Maynard Gomm, George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis, Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, Charles Yorke, Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln, George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London, William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington. Excerpt: Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington," even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington. Born in Ireland, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later in India, where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799. Wellesley rose to...
