Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), was the outstanding soldier of his age.
He joined the army and rose rapidly to command a Division in India.
After great military and administrative success, he was knighted on his return to England in 1805, and in 1809 this ‘sepoy general’ took command of British, Spanish and Portuguese forces in the Iberian peninsula to fight the French.
Over five years, in a series of brilliant campaigns, Wellington defeated Napoleon’s best armies, and top Marshals — Ionia, Soult and Marmont, as well as Bonaparte’s brother Joseph.
The war culminated in Wellington’s astonishing victory at Waterloo.
Wellington went on to be one of Europe’s most influential statesmen and one of Britain’s most reactionary Prime Ministers, yet when he died he had become the country’s most respected elder statesman.
‘The Duke’ is an impressive biography of one of Britain’s greatest heroes, written in a glittering epigrammatic style that is typical of Guedalla’s witty and sympathetic understanding of his subject.
Philip Guedalla, born in 1889, died in 1944. At Oxford he was President of the Union Society; later he was called to the Bar and contested several Parliamentary elections as a Liberal. Having become interested in British relations with South America, he founded the Ibero-American Institute and was responsible for the Latin-American Division of the British Council. During the war he lectured in both North and South America, and broadcast frequently to South America. Among other distinguished books by him are The Second Empire, Palmerston, The Duke and The Hundred Years.
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