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Wellington Monument: £500,000 to support repair job
The 175ft (53m) obelisk was built in 1817 as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo. The three-sided monument, which is clearly visible from the M5, has been fenced off for 13 ...
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Wellington Monument £1.8m repairs to begin
The National Trust is to spend £1.8m to partially repair a crumbling monument. The 175ft (53m) Wellington Monument in Somerset was built in 1817 as a tribute to the Duke of Wellington's victory ...
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The Waterloo Campaign, 1815, continued
His battle plan was simple. Wellington’s men occupied the outlying farm buildings on both flanks, and the crest of a ridge in the center near the village of Waterloo. To break them, Napoleon ...
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WATERLOO, BY R. CATON WOODVILLE; Napoleon on the Battlefield -- Veritable Relics of the Duke of Wellington and the Emperor.
contains a dozen or more Napoleonic and Wellington relics, loaned by the present possessor of the title of England's great soldier, the hero of Waterloo. With these is hung the painting "1815," by R.
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'I climbed 115 steps up historic North Wales monument and it was well worth it'
The only caveat to a visit to his monument is that the main ... After the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium in 1815 in which the Duke of Wellington - aided by Henry Paget - defeated Napoleon, the ...
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Walk the Peak District’s Four Edges – Curbar, Froggatt, Baslow and White in one circular route
Traversing the good paths along the top brings you to Baslow Edge and the Wellington Monument, a 10-foot high ... s victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. It was erected by a local resident ...