1769. The Duke of Wellington was born

Portrait of the work of Thomas Lawrence. 1828

250 years ago, on May 1, 1769, Arthur Welling, Duke of Wellington, British Field Marshal, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and twice became the prime minister of England from the Tori party.

In the declining years, in 1848, already moving away from active political activity, Wellington again was in the spotlight for a short time when he gathered troops as a commander in chief to protect London from the European revolution.