Subject Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon, served since the leader with the Conservative party in your house of Lords, 1828–1846. Some writers have belittled him like a befuddled reactionary, but a consensus reached inside the late twentieth century depicts him being a shrewd operator who hid his cleverness a

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