As part of school work, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges.

Larger cities were comparatively safe, with Auckland City ( 28 ), Wellington ( 22 ) and Christchurch ( 28 ), while Dunedin had a higher rate of 43.

In 1843 a local militia had been formed in Wellington without official sanction.

Curiously, the newspaper article of the time notes that Wellington had a mounted Volunteer Corp.

Following on from this the local paper noted that the No 1 Company of the Wellington Militia had been called out, while the troops stationed in the town had been in the Hutt.

In 2005, Wellington Mara, who had been with the team since its inception in 1925 when he worked as a ball boy, died at the age of 89.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

In reality, as the battle had been won, Blücher and Wellington met to signal the defeat of Napoleon, which is not seen in the film.

But with the Prussian retreat, Wellington too had to retreat.

Grouchy organized a successful and well-ordered retreat towards Paris, where Marshal Davout had 117, 000 men ready to turn back the 116, 000 men of Blücher and Wellington.

The Duke of Wellington, who had previously earned fame by leading the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, strongly opposed reform measures.

" Wellington was replaced by the Whig reformer Charles Grey, who had by this time the title of Earl Grey.

In these circumstances, the Duke of Wellington had great difficulty in building support for his premiership, despite promising moderate reform.

According to Lord Holland, the Duke of Wellington had claimed that it was Lady Jersey who had selected Caroline as George's bride.

In 1812, the Earl of Wellington ( the future Duke of Wellington ) again attempted to take Badajoz, which had a French garrison of about 5, 000 men.

At the cost of some 5, 000 British Army casualties, Wellington had succeeded in taking Badajoz.

He had a lifelong association with Victoria University College, which became Victoria University of Wellington, and after his death it named the archival collections after him.

The Provincial Council of New Munster had only one legislative session, in 1849, before it succumbed to the virulent attacks of settlers from Wellington.

French dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British General Wellington signed the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other strongholds that they had managed to keep until the last.

The band's first release came in 1999 with the Natural Compression EP, which had been recorded at Marmalade Studios in Wellington, with friend and Shihad drummer Tom Larkin producing.

He had already urged Wellington into active interference in the Greek War of Independence, and he had made several visits to Paris, where he foresaw with great accuracy the impending overthrow of the Bourbons.

Blücher was already in communication with Wellington.

Within a month of arriving in Wellington Wakefield was leading the attacks on George Grey, they began a campaign in London to have him recalled not knowing he had already applied to leave the colony.

In March 1941 a Vickers Wellington DWI that conveniently already had the necessary generator on board, ( it had been used for anti-magnetic mining operations using a large electromagnet ) was modified with a retractable " dustbin " holding the lamp, and proved the concept sound.

In a story common to so many small towns, the economic downturn has compounded the challenges already created by out of town shopping, with empty premises and ongoing concerns about ' too many charity shops ' Wellington shown within Telford in < font COLOR ="# FF00B4 "> Purple </ font >. Wellington continues to try and find its place in the local economy but losing large national stores like Dunelm to Telford Centre only makes the challenge harder.

Donnington was not part of the new town of Telford but part of the already outdated Wellington Rural District which had built many council houses from the 1920s onwards.

It had already begun to expand westwards, through Pelham Place and Wellington Square, and further building began.

The construction crew informed the delegation from Wellington that the area had already been named Knight's Point.

( The term " wimp " for an unmanly character was in common usage already, as with the cartoon character J. Wellington Wimpy ).

While the station remained a satellite for RAF Upper Heyford and No 16 OTU until July 1942 and even partially re-equipped with Wellington bombers, its future had already changed.

Wellington ordered the deputies to espouse King Louis's cause.

After ordering his artillery to crossfire through the centre of the French line, Wellington ordered a second assault.

In early July Schwarzenberg, having received a request from Wellington and Blücher, ordered Wrede to act as the Austrian vanguard and advance on Paris and by 5 July the main body of Wrede's IV Corps had reached Châlons.

When the news of the fighting reached the Governor in Wellington, he ordered HMS Driver to take reinforcements to Petone.

Wellington refused to get off the train, and ordered that the trains return to Liverpool.

The New Zealand Company settlement at Wellington, for example, continued to use the United Tribes flag until ordered to replace it by Governor William Hobson in May 1840 ( following his declaration of British sovereignty ).

Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Sir Richard Fletcher, 1st Baronet and his Portuguese workers between November 1809 and September 1810, and used to stop Masséna's 1810 offensive.

Wellington, after surveying the area personally, ordered in his detailed memorandum dated 20 October 1809 the building of the Lines of Torres as a system of fortifications blockhouses, redoubts, ravelins, cuts of natural relief, etc.

At 17: 05, Major General Smith ordered infantry in the 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade to attack the enemy force on Wellington Ridge on the left of the light horse and in coordination with the counterattack on Mount Royston.

Brigadier General Girdwood ordered infantry in the 7th and 8th Scottish Rifles Battalions to hold their ground on Wellington Ridge until daylight, but to keep close contact with the enemy during the night in the hope of capturing large numbers of tired and disorganised soldiers in the morning.

Wellington ordered them down a certain road, but they decided it “ was too long and too wet and chose another.

The first Duke of Wellington died in 1852 and in the following year Queen Victoria, in recognition of the regiment's long ties to him, ordered that the regiment's title be changed to the 33rd ( or The Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment.

To keep the pressure on Wellington, immediately after sending for d ' Erlon, Ney ordered Kellermann to lead his one available cuirassier brigade and break through Wellington's line.

When Bytown was first laid out, the street was named after the Duke of Wellington, who ordered the construction of the Rideau Canal in 1825, and who is thus one of the founders of the city.

At the end of January 1810 he was ordered to move to Portugal in order to communicate Wellington the difficult military situation in that they were against the French.

The locomotive was ordered in 1901 from Baldwin Locomotive Works by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company ( WMR ) for use on their main line's steep section between Wellington and Paekakariki.

In 1904 the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company ( WMR ) ordered a 2-8-4T Tank locomotive from Baldwin Locomotive Works for banking duties on the 2½ % ( 1 in 40 ) gradients from Wellington to Johnsonville.

At Waterloo in 1815 his courage under fire was noticed by the Duke of Wellington who ordered his soldiers not to fire in his direction so as to ' give the brave man time to gather up the wounded ' and saluted ' the courage and devotion of an age that is no longer ours '.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand government had ordered 30 modern Vickers Wellington bombers to replace its Vickers Vildebeests in New Zealand.

In 2010, a judge ordered that Hana be made a mental health patient to be housed in Wellington Hospital's psychiatric ward 27, where " he will have clean clothes, regular meals, and no access to drink and drugs.

The New Zealand government had ordered 30 Vickers Wellington Mk1C bombers in 1938.

Now reinforced by his 7th Division, Wellington ordered an attack.