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2 unusual facts about Duke of Wellington's Regiment


Haddersfield, Jamaica

On 18 June 1853 the regiment formally became known as "The 33rd (or The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment".

Henry Kaulback

Ralph Gore, of Barrowmount, County Kilkenny, and of H.M.'s 33rd Regiment of Foot.


154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment

As the Second World War was beginning to end in Europe in 1944 the Soviet NKVD in Moscow was charged with raising a full-time honor guard company as part of the 1st Regiment, OMSDON (then the NKVD 1st Special Duties Division), in the style and manner of the British Household Division's Foot Guards, the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and the French Republican Guard's First Infantry Regiment.

Ankō Itosu

Remember the words attributed to the Duke of Wellington after he defeated Napoleon: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

Badminton, Gloucestershire

Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and later commander of all the British forces in the Crimean War was born, raised and buried in Badminton.

Bakshi Ghulam Haider

Khan Bahadur Bakhshi Ghulam Haider Khan (died 1828 AD) was Faujdar of a unit at the time of Battle of Assaye, which was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington).

Bovey Tracey

During the English Civil War on 9 January 1646, Oliver Cromwell and a contingent of his Roundhead army entered Bovey Tracey after dark and caught part of Lord Wentworth's Regiment by surprise, catching a number of officers playing cards in an inn.

Burderop Park

Thomas was married to Elizabeth Keck, daughter of Anthony James Keck of Stoughton Grange; they had a son John James Calley, who sold the estate to John Parkinson, who held the estate as a trustee, for the Duke of Wellington.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

As Lady Barbara is the (fictitious) sister of the Duke of Wellington (an anachronism, as the title was created in 1814 and he would have been Sir Arthur Wellesley at this time), Hornblower is in no position to refuse her request for passage to England.

Catholic emancipation

Finally, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel changed positions and passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

Counties of Victoria

Earlier maps of Gippsland area in the eastern part of the state show proposed counties of Douro (a title of the Duke of Wellington), Bass, Haddington, Bruce, Abinger, Combermere and Howe with approximate boundaries.

Cuéllar Castle

Also stands out figures as the painter Francisco Javier Parcerisa, or the writer José de Espronceda, the generals Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo and Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, who set his garrison barracks in this castle during the Spanish War of Independence.

Dillon's Regiment

The flags and ensigns were returned to Charles, Lord Dillon, head of the Dillon family in Ireland.

E H D Sewell

His grandfather was Sir William Henry Sewell (c1786–1862),who was aide-de-camp to William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, during the Peninsular War, and joined the Duke of Wellington’s army in Portugal in 1808.

Ernest Martin Jehan

He was posted to HMS Duke of Wellington on 2 December HMS Raven on 9 December and back to Duke of Wellington I on 26 March 1901.

François Gérard

This extraordinary vogue was due partly to the charm of his manner and conversation, for his salon was as much frequented as his studio; Madame de Staël, George Canning, Talleyrand, the Duke of Wellington, have all borne witness to the attraction of his society.

GWR Iron Duke Class

Name of the class, Iron Duke was a reference to the Duke of Wellington.

Ha'penny Bridge

Originally called the Wellington Bridge (after the Duke of Wellington), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge.

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line also named after the first Duke of Wellington

HMS Windsor Castle

She was renamed HMS Duke of Wellington a month after being launched as a screw propelled ship in 1852.

Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie

At Waterloo, after the emperor noted that the Prussians were marching to aid the Duke of Wellington, he was send together with Lobau's VI Infantry Corps to hold the French right flank while the emperor faced Wellington.

James De Ville

De Ville examined an enormous number of heads including those of many well-known figures including John Elliotson, Hermann Prince of Pückler-Muskau, Harriet Martineau, Charles Bray, George Eliot, William Blake, Richard Dale Owen, Richard Carlile, the Duke of Wellington and Prince Albert.

Ligonier, Pennsylvania

He initially called the town Ramseytown, later changed to Wellington (after the Duke of Wellington), and finally the name was changed to Ligonier.

Lord Hornblower

During the following peace, Hornblower's wife Barbara accompanies her brother, the Duke of Wellington, to the Congress of Vienna, leaving Hornblower at loose ends.

Luxullianite

An example may be seen in the Duke of Wellington's monument at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Madras Engineer Group

These engineer troops fought in numerous campaigns in India at Sholinghur, Seringapatam, Assaye (along with Major General Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and also in Egypt, China, Burma and other places abroad.

Manus O'Cahan's Regiment

By the Civil War of the mid-seventeenth century there was already a centuries old blood feud running between the Campbell and Macdonald clans.

David Leslie, a leading highly experienced soldier and Covenanter, attacked O'Cahan's men as they were just waking up at an encampment in Philiphaugh (near to the site of today's Selkirk Rugby football club ) on 13 September 1645.

As part of that feud, the Campbells had seized ownership of the Hebridean isles of Islay and Colonsey from an aged warrior called Colkitto (known as Col Ciottoch, Scots Gaelic for he who fights with both hands, as he was ambidextrous).

Mount Wellington, New Zealand

Named by colonists after the Duke of Wellington, the native Māori people called it Maungarei and used it for centuries as a or hill fort.

My Famous Family

Each episode shows an ordinary member of the public with a famous ancestor: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Lawrence of Arabia, or the Duke of Wellington.

National Museum Soares dos Reis

During the Peninsular War, the Carrancas Palace was sequentially used as residence by General Soult, headquarters for the Duke of Wellington and residence for General Beresford.

Peter Rouw

The Victoria & Albert Museum holds a medallion in pink wax on black glass made by him of Prince Lucien Bonaparte (1814), the Duke of Wellington (1822) and posthumously in 1814 of Matthew Boulton, the partner of James Watt.

Queen's Regiment

Today, the name of the Queen's Regiment is maintained by B (Queen's Regiment) Company, The London Regiment.

In 1971 the 6th (Volunteer) and 7th (Volunteer) Battalions were formed with headquarters at Wandsworth and Horsham respectively.

In 1993 8QF was retitled the London Regiment with the disbandment of the existing A (Middlesex) Company.

Rubens mare

Matthew Cotes Wyatt used Recovery as a model for the Duke of Wellington's deceased horse Copenhagen, when creating the Wellington Statue in Aldershot.

Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall

With Aligarh Fort, it was also fortified and commanded by Perron till the Battle of Ally Ghur in the year of 1802, when it was laid under siege by the British 76th Regiment, now known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, under General Lord Gerard Lake.

Sir Thomas Picton School

He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was mortally wounded while his division stopped d'Erlon's corps attack against the allied centre left, and so became the most senior officer to die at Waterloo.

Sirsoli

The Battle of Argaon took place on November 28, 1803, between the British under the command of General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) and the forces of The Rajah of Berar under Sindhia of Gwalior.

The Madras Regiment

The elephant crest symbolizes its gallantry in the Battle of Assaye under Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington.

Tone Dale House

Tone Dale House, also known as House of Fox, offers views of Somerset with the Quantock hills to the North, and Blackdown Hills to the south, upon which sits the Wellington monument, built in commemoration of the Duke of Wellington.

Victor Renquist

He has reputedly works for the Duke of Wellington, Nicholas II of Russia, and the NSA.

Vivian Hunter Galbraith

Ater the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in January 1915 and served as a company commander in the Queen's Regiment and was awarded the Croix de guerre avec palme for his courage in Palestine in 1917 and France in 1918.

Wellington's Victory

Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria, Op. 91 (Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria) is a minor 15-minute long orchestral work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven to commemorate the Duke of Wellington's victory over Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria in Spain on 21 June 1813.

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was an Anglo-Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.

Woodhouse Moor

Near Hyde Park corner is a statue of Sir Robert Peel by William Behnes and at the opposite corner where Moorland Road meets Clarendon road is a statue of the Duke of Wellington by Carlo Marochetti.

Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

Those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel.


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Halifax Minster

On Saturday the (31 March 2007) the stand of the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Regulation colours, taken out of service in 2002, in Osnabrück, Germany, at the Regiments Tercentenary parade, were laid up in the Parish church.

Thomas Wale

His sons included General Sir Charles Wale (born 15 August 1752) who became Colonel of the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot on 25 February 1831.