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Join us to hear about the extraordinary life and career of Britain’s greatest general, the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Dismissed by his mother as being ‘fit only for powder’, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington endured a lonely childhood and frustrating youth, only to emerge by dint of immense will power and perseverance as the dominant figure in Britain at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Wellington’s subsequent career as politician, Prime Minister and elder statesman was as turbulent and dramatic as his soldiering.
