Well, not at the 1815 Brussels original, of course, but at its re-enactment in 1969 by Sergei Bondarchuk for Waterloo, a movie in which Christopher Plummer played Wellington, Virginia McKenna the ...

The 1st Duke of Wellington was always very particular about the way he turned himself out — as was his nemesis Napoleon, of course. by Michael Glover April 16, 2024 June 27, 2025 Subscribe to ...

WATERLOO, BY R. CATON WOODVILLE; Napoleon on the Battlefield -- Veritable Relics of the Duke of Wellington and the Emperor. Share full article. Dec. 10, 1895.

He frequented brothels, once shot a woman doing her washing but led troops to victory at Waterloo. JAMES MOORE marks the 250th anniversary of the Duke of Wellington's birth ...

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte and The Duke of Wellington met at Waterloo, in what is now Belgium. At stake was world dominance. Many books have been written about this epic battle but ...

Shared Destinies event is one among many exhibits planned across Europe to mark the Battle of Waterloo’s bicentenary. ... Duke of Wellington and Napoleon to finally meet at Waterloo exhibition.

The new Ridley Scott movie Napoleon aroused some thoughts regarding the Battle of Waterloo, so famous in history and so well depicted in the movie, despite the film’s many historical inaccuracies.

Wellington made these famous, much-quoted comments about Waterloo to people who saw him in the immediate aftermath of victory 200 years ago. He rarely spoke of anything at length; it was his habit ...

The battle of Waterloo stopped Napoleon and made a hero of the Duke of Wellington. But historian Peter Hofschroer tells Liane Hansen that a scale model of the battle made by one Lt. William ...

The British remember William Howe De Lancey, an American friend to the Duke of Wellington, as a hero for the role he played in the 1815 clash John Hanc - History Correspondent June 15, 2015 ...