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 ...

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 ...

The first, excellent part, covering the period from Wellington’s birth in 1769 to the conclusion of his victorious Peninsular campaign in 1814, appeared two years ago. This second volume begins with ...

Soon after the details of Wellington's victory became known ... the Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh submitted a motion for a national monument to be erected to those who fell at Waterloo. In the ...

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.

It is a work of remarkably skillful historical investigation, and its findings may well dismay the Duke of Wellington's many admirers. Fifteen years after Waterloo the Great Duke was Prime Minister, ...

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 ...

Soon after the details of Wellington's victory became known ... the Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh submitted a motion for a national monument to be erected to those who fell at Waterloo. In the ...

In the centre of the reserve, surrounded by landscaped gardens, stands the Waterloo World War 2 Memorial ... Arnold opened a monument masonry works in 1879 on the corner of Wellington and Regent ...