Arthur Wellesley was born in Ireland in 1769 (the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte) although he himself was always anti Irish and hated being connected to them in any way. As he said "Being born in a stable does not make one a horse". He had changed his surname from Wesley to Wellesley although only a century earlier it had been Colley. His first opportunity came when he was appointed Colonel of the 33rd Regiment (nicknamed the Haversacks) on its voyage to India where Britain was engaged in the Maratha Wars. Wellesley's brother, Marquess Richard Wellesley, Governor of Mysore upgraded Wellesley to the command of the army in the Indian peninsular.
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| - Arthur Wellesley was born in Ireland in 1769 (the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte) although he himself was always anti Irish and hated being connected to them in any way. As he said "Being born in a stable does not make one a horse". He had changed his surname from Wesley to Wellesley although only a century earlier it had been Colley. His first opportunity came when he was appointed Colonel of the 33rd Regiment (nicknamed the Haversacks) on its voyage to India where Britain was engaged in the Maratha Wars. Wellesley's brother, Marquess Richard Wellesley, Governor of Mysore upgraded Wellesley to the command of the army in the Indian peninsular.
- Arthur Wellesley was a soldier in the British Army who eventually rose to extreme prominence due to his victories in the Napoleonic Wars. He eventually reached the rank of field marshal and was created the Duke of Wellington. He was the older brother of Barbara Wellesley and the brother-in-law of Horatio Hornblower.
- He was perhaps best remembered for defeating the French Emperor Napoleon I in the Battle of Waterloo. In 1903 PD, Admiral Raoul Courvosier wondered if the quote about the general who makes the last mistake losing was used by Wellington, Rommel, or Tanakov. (HH2)
- During the subsequent battle against Napoléon Bonaparte, the Doctor played a vital role in carrying messages through the battlefield. He posed as Napoleon himself, exploiting the superficial similarity between himself and the Emperor. After the battle, Wellesley remarked to the Doctor that "the only thing sadder than a battle lost, is a battle won". (PROSE: World Game) The Fourth Doctor later considered how right he was: the only thing harder than losing was winning and realising whom you had lost to reach that point. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors) Wellesley fought alongside Oliver Blazington at the battle. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Jungle) Major General Fergus Lethbridge-Stewart, an ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, served as the Duke's right-hand man at the battle. (PROSE: The Scales of
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| - Arthur Wellesley was born in Ireland in 1769 (the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte) although he himself was always anti Irish and hated being connected to them in any way. As he said "Being born in a stable does not make one a horse". He had changed his surname from Wesley to Wellesley although only a century earlier it had been Colley. His first opportunity came when he was appointed Colonel of the 33rd Regiment (nicknamed the Haversacks) on its voyage to India where Britain was engaged in the Maratha Wars. Wellesley's brother, Marquess Richard Wellesley, Governor of Mysore upgraded Wellesley to the command of the army in the Indian peninsular.
- Arthur Wellesley was a soldier in the British Army who eventually rose to extreme prominence due to his victories in the Napoleonic Wars. He eventually reached the rank of field marshal and was created the Duke of Wellington. He was the older brother of Barbara Wellesley and the brother-in-law of Horatio Hornblower.
- During the subsequent battle against Napoléon Bonaparte, the Doctor played a vital role in carrying messages through the battlefield. He posed as Napoleon himself, exploiting the superficial similarity between himself and the Emperor. After the battle, Wellesley remarked to the Doctor that "the only thing sadder than a battle lost, is a battle won". (PROSE: World Game) The Fourth Doctor later considered how right he was: the only thing harder than losing was winning and realising whom you had lost to reach that point. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors) Wellesley fought alongside Oliver Blazington at the battle. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Jungle) Major General Fergus Lethbridge-Stewart, an ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, served as the Duke's right-hand man at the battle. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice) During a brief visit to 1816, the Doctor met with Wellesley again and took a trip to Brighton with him. They met the Prince Regent, who convinced the Doctor to invest some money he had recently won gambling in a bank that a friend of his had just founded. (PROSE: World Game) In a history project for school, Clyde Langer and Luke Smith were required to show the battle strategies of Wellington and Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while playing a game of Waterloo on Mr Smith. Luke, impersonating Napoleon, referred to Clyde as "monsieur Duke". (TV: The Last Sontaran) In the years after the Napoleonic Wars, Wellesley served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In 1851, when he was an elderly man near the end of his life, he met the Eighth Doctor's companion Charley Pollard at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in London. He took an immediate liking to Charley, who was initially unaware of his identity. He permitted her to call him by his first name over the objections of his assistant, Mr Fazackerly. (AUDIO: Other Lives)
- He was perhaps best remembered for defeating the French Emperor Napoleon I in the Battle of Waterloo. In 1903 PD, Admiral Raoul Courvosier wondered if the quote about the general who makes the last mistake losing was used by Wellington, Rommel, or Tanakov. (HH2)
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