Duke of Wellington : Arthur Wellesley (1769-1842): 4th son of the 1st Earl of Mornington & younger brother of Marquess Richard Colley (see above): educated at Chelsea, Eton, & Angers in France: joined the Army as ensign in 1787, rose to Lt-Colonel in 1793: posted to Calcutta with his regiment in 1797, was part of the invasion that had reached Penang when his brother called him back to fight Tippoo: in 1799 led Nizam’s troops when his brother invaded Mysore; in March routed Tippoo at Malavilli; in May stood by as reserve when General Harris besieged Srirangapattinam, helped vandalise & plunder it & brutalise Tipoo’s family: in 1802, helped isolate, fight & subdue Sindhia, Bhonsle, Holkar, & Berar, breaking the power of the Maratha Confederacy: Chief Political & Military Officer in the Dekkan & S. Mahratta country: coerced regional rulers into treaties which netted E.I. Co large territories in South India: disarmed the native armies thus bestowing the peninsula with Pax Britannica: received at Bombay a sword of honour & made Knight Commander of the Bath (K.C.B.): returned with his Wellesley to England in 1805: won greater fame as the General who won the Peninsular War in Europe, & defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Prime Minister of England in 1828-30: in 1842 made Commander-in-Chief for life: after he death, buried with great pomp in St. Paul’s. [Deloused & humanised Buckland; & Bhattacharya]
... harm done by perverseness and churlishness is so immense! We wonder whether our official Governors ever think. It is very easy. What would they feel if the bones of a great Englishman, say, the Duke of Wellington, were so treated! But the diseased attachment to prestige and the reputation of an assured wisdom and an inflexible power have sealed up the eyes of those in high places. Students and Politics ...
... his victory at Plassey, had ended French pretensions to an Indian empire and firmly established the British as one of the arbiters of India's fate. A generation later, Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) and his galloping guns had crushed the power of the Peshwas and Britain no longer had any serious rivals to its Indian domination. Sometimes by design, at other times almost by accident the ...
... concerned with promoting French commercial interests than conquest. To that end they tried to undermine the British influence, in particular among the Indian rulers. Letters from Lord Wellesley (Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852) plainly speak about the panic in British circles over the close ties of French generals with Indian rulers. In the pursuit of commerce, the Dutch formed their Veveenigde Oo ...
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