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This week's #WellingtonWednesday is the (giant) Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in Aldershot... Formerly on Wellington Arch.Designed by Matthew Wyatt it sits at 30 foot high on a
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General Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lyndoch died #OnThisDay 18 December 1843 aged 95.A fierce scotsman who had served through the Revolutionary & Peninsular Wars, often leading from the front &
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#OnThisDay 7 Dec 1815 Marshal Michael Ney was executed for treason.After his trial nearly all of the Chamber of peers voted for the death penalty (137 of 160)He was taken
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This week's #WellingtonWednesday is his relationship with William Pitt the Younger.On hearing of Austerlitz (fought #OnThisDay 1805) he is reported to have looked at a map and said "Roll up
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Marble Arch:John Nash (1752-1835) was the favoured architect of the Prince Regent, later King George IV. Nash designed which was designed to be a grand gateway to Buckingham Palace &
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Fought #OnThisDay 17 August 1808 The Battle of Roliça. Arthur Wellesley's first major engagement in the Peninsular War & a desperate attack up cliffs with gullies against a smaller force
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