Wellington: A Personal History. Christopher Hibbert

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1997

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       DEDICATION

      For Pam Carpenter

      With Love

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Author’s Note and Acknowledgements

Maps

PART I • 1769–1815

1 Eton, Dublin and Angers, 1769–87

2 An Officer in the 33rd, 1787–93

3 The First Campaign, 1794–5

4 A Voyage to India, 1796–8

5 The Tiger of Mysore, 1799

6 The Governor of Mysore, 1799

7 The Sultan’s Palace, 1800–1

8 Assaye, 1802–5

9 Return to London, 1805–6

10 Kitty Pakenham, 1790–1806

11 Ireland and Denmark, 1806–7

12 Portugal, 1808

13 Board of Enquiry, 1808

14 Across the Douro, 1809

15 ‘A Whole Host of Marshals’, 1809–10

16 From Bussaco to El Bodon, 1810–11

17 Life at Headquarters, 1810–12

18 Badajoz, Salamanca and Madrid, 1812

       19 Retreat to Portugal, 1812

       20 From Vitoria to the Frontier, 1812–13

       21 St Jean de Luz, 1813

       22 In London Again, 1814

       23 Paris and Vienna, 1814–15

       24 Brussels, 1815

       25 Waterloo, 1815

       PART II • 1815–52

       26 The Ambassador, 1815

       27 Cambrai and Vitry, 1815–18

       28 Stratfield Saye, 1818–20

       29 King George IV and Queen Caroline, 1820–1

       30 Husband and Wife, 1821

       31 Vienna and Verona, 1822–4

       32 St Petersburg and the Northern Counties, 1825–7

       33 The Prime Minister, 1828–9

       34 Battersea Fields and Scotland Yard, 1829

       35 The Death of the King, 1829–30

       36 Riots and Repression, 1830–2

       37 A Bogy to the Mob, 1832

       38 Oxford University and Apsley House, 1832–4

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