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The duke of Wellington : a pictorial survey of his life 1769-1852
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ISBN: 0112900224 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Her Majesty's stationery office


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Observations on two pamphlets (lately published) attributed to Mr Brougham
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Year: 1830 Publisher: London J. Hatchard and Son


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Observations on two pamphlets (lately published) attributed to Mr Brougham
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Year: 1830 Publisher: London J. Hatchard


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Reply to a pamphlet entitled "What has the Duke of Wellington gained by the dissolution?"
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Year: 1830 Publisher: London Saunders and Otley


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Wellington
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ISBN: 9780300205480 0300205481 0300198604 9780300198607 1299975445 9781299975446 9780300186659 0300186657 9780300187861 0300187866 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny diplomat as well as lover, husband, and friend. Rory Muir's masterful new biography, the first of a two-volume set, is the fruit of a lifetime's research and discovery into Wellington and his times. The author brings Wellington into much sharper focus than ever before, addressing his masterstrokes and mistakes in equal measure. Muir looks at all aspects of Wellington's career, from his unpromising youth through his remarkable successes in India and his role as junior minister in charge of Ireland, to his controversial military campaigns. With dramatic descriptions of major battles and how they might have turned out differently, the author underscores the magnitude of Wellington's achievements. The biography is the first to address the major significance of Wellington's political connections and shrewdness, and to set his career within the wider history of British politics and the war against Napoleon. The volume also revises Wellington's reputation for being cold and aloof, showing instead a man of far more complex and interesting character.


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Wellington's wars
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ISBN: 9780300164176 9780300165401 0300165404 0300164173 9781280780707 1280780703 9786613691095 6613691097 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate-and controversial-new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war. Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible-with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.


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Wellington.
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ISBN: 9780300186659 9780300187861 9780300214048 0300214049 9780300205480 0300187866 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven

Wellington and Napoleon : clash of arms, 1807-1815
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ISBN: 1473820626 1473801303 9781473801301 9781473820623 0850529263 9780850529265 Year: 2003 Publisher: South Yorkshire, England : Pen & Sword Military Classics,

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