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Wellington: A Personal History
Christopher Hibbert
A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain’s leading popular historian.Wellington (1769–1852) achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain and his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo earned him a dukedom and the award of Apsley House (No. 1, London) and a large estate in Hampshire.His second career saw him make his mark as a politician with commanding presence. Appointed Commander-in-Chief for life, he became Prime Minister in 1827 and presided over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country’s first police force.Privately, he was unhappily married, and had several mistresses (including two of Napoleon’s) and many intimate friendships with women. The private side of the public man has never been so richly delineated as in this masterly biography.
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DEDICATION (#ulink_6e586782-20e4-5f64-a5e9-c25bef0f34cb)
For Pam Carpenter
With Love
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Maps
PART I • 1769–1815 (#ulink_5c294a7b-4be9-5686-9c74-bf85bb30e1b2)
1 Eton, Dublin and Angers, 1769–87 (#ulink_aa3d22bd-2841-5501-9bb0-a9aedc1e4ce9)
2 An Officer in the 33rd, 1787–93 (#ulink_80c2ac05-8fe4-5373-aaf6-2fa3250854bc)
3 The First Campaign, 1794–5 (#ulink_71ad2bb1-9713-594c-87c6-71353654b659)
4 A Voyage to India, 1796–8 (#ulink_461a6a0c-9e03-5004-a554-8abd85b6abb2)
5 The Tiger of Mysore, 1799 (#ulink_0571038a-50dd-564d-883c-1f2d075cf1c5)
6 The Governor of Mysore, 1799 (#ulink_c9085563-f05b-567f-acea-246c6a7d23a7)
7 The Sultan’s Palace, 1800–1 (#ulink_cd594167-6a79-538c-a99b-36c61cb6581c)
8 Assaye, 1802–5 (#ulink_90be0340-492c-59fb-ac2e-faa0c1b41a3e)
9 Return to London, 1805–6 (#ulink_dbaa2cb4-ebdd-5e25-ac1c-d71c09717399)
10 Kitty Pakenham, 1790–1806
11 Ireland and Denmark, 1806–7
12 Portugal, 1808
13 Board of Enquiry, 1808
14 Across the Douro, 1809
15 ‘A Whole Host of Marshals’, 1809–10
16 From Bussaco to El Bodon, 1810–11
17 Life at Headquarters, 1810–12
18 Badajoz, Salamanca and Madrid, 1812
19 Retreat to Portugal, 1812
20 From Vitoria to the Frontier, 1812–13
21 St Jean de Luz, 1813
22 In London Again, 1814
23 Paris and Vienna, 1814–15
24 Brussels, 1815
25 Waterloo, 1815
PART II • 1815–52
26 The Ambassador, 1815
27 Cambrai and Vitry, 1815–18
28 Stratfield Saye, 1818–20
29 King George IV and Queen Caroline, 1820–1
30 Husband and Wife, 1821
31 Vienna and Verona, 1822–4
32 St Petersburg and the Northern Counties, 1825–7
33 The Prime Minister, 1828–9
34 Battersea Fields and Scotland Yard, 1829
35 The Death of the King, 1829–30
36 Riots and Repression, 1830–2
37 A Bogy to the Mob, 1832
38 Oxford University and Apsley House, 1832–4
39 Lady Friends, 1834
40 The Foreign Secretary, 1834–6
41 Portraits and Painters, 1830–50
42 Life at Walmer Castle, 1830–50
43 The Young Queen, 1837–9
44 Grand Old Man, 1839–50
45 The Horse Guards and the House of Lords, 1842–50
46 Hyde Park Comer, 1845–6
47 Disturbers of the Peace, 1846–51
48 Growing Old, 1850–1
49 Last Days, 1851–2
50 The Way to St Paul’s, 1852
Footnote
Keep Reading
References
Sources
Index
Photo Section
About the Author
Praise
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
ILLUSTRATIONS (#ulink_96e6da6f-e7f3-59e1-9895-2f7d65fb264a)
BLACK AND WHITE
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Arthur Wellesley. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
Anne, Countess of Mornington. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Hon. William Wellesley-Pole. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Rev. the Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley. Photograph Mary Evans Picture Library.
The Hon. Henry Wellesley. Portrait by John Hoppner. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
Caricature of soldiers on the march, by Thomas Rowlandson. Copyright British Museum.
‘Blücher the Brave’: caricature by Thomas Rowlandson. Guildhall Library, Corporation of London. Photograph Bridgeman Art Library, London.
The Duke of Wellington and Marshall Blücher. Photograph Mansell Collection.
Caricature by Isaac Cruikshank. Copyright British Museum.
The Duchess of Wellington, in a drawing by John Hayter. Reproduced courtesy of The Duke of Wellington KG; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art.
