THE STORY OF
WELLINGTON
Uniform with this Volume
THE STORY OF NAPOLEON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,F.R.Hist.S. With 16 full-page Illustrations.
THE STORY OF NELSON
By Harold F. B. Wheeler,F.R.Hist.S. With 16 full-page Illustrations.
FAMOUS VOYAGES OF THE GREAT
DISCOVERERS
By Eric Wood. With 16 full-pageIllustrations.
THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES
By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton,F.R.Hist.S. With 16 full-page Illustrationsby M. Meredith Williams.
STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER
By Mr and Mrs William Platt.With 16 full-page Illustrations byM. Meredith Williams.
Fr.
THE STORY OF
WELLINGTON
BY
Harold F. B. Wheeler F.R.Hist.S.
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
JOINT-AUTHOR OF
‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ ETC.
AUTHOR OF
‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’
‘THE STORY OF NAPOLEON’ AND ‘THE STORY OF NELSON’
He that gain’d a hundred fights,
Nor ever lost an English gun’
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Illustrations by Ballantyne & Co., Ltd., London
Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
DEDICATED TO
C. ALFRED HAMILTON, Esq
MY LIFE-LONG FRIEND
“Vera amicitia sempiterna est”
In this, the last of a trio of volumes dealing withthree great contemporary men of action, I haveattempted to tell the story, in its main lines, ofthe crowded life of Wellington. The narrative providesas substantial a view of Wellington as is possible withinthe limits of my space, but I hope that readers of mybook will be so interested that they will go on to theperusal of its companions, for the careers of Napoleon,Nelson, and Wellington should be studied together.They are the three sides of a triangle of which Napoleonis the base.
The Duke’s career, when