The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.

The French leader is mulling sending troops to the Ukraine conflict, but his little emperor moment could turn into a ...

The Waterseller of Seville, about 1620, by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), 421⁄3in by 32in, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London. The Duke of Wellington says: I have known this painting all ...

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Richard Fletcher, chief engineer to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war ... of the Tower and the Sword and in 1812 was created a baronet. His grave is on the heights of ...