The "mud-splattered" cloak worn by the Duke of Wellington during the Waterloo campaign has sold at auction for £47,500. The garment, made from blue wool and trimmed with a navy collar and facings ...

It is fair to say that just as the Duke of Wellington, then British Prime Minister ... and he also instructed troops to present arms when the Blessed Sacrament passed in the street.

Wellington is remembered as the conqueror of Napoleon and as one of Britain's finest soldiers, despite starting life as a violin-playing Anglo-Irish aristocrat. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of ...