* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

Instead of punishing him, Wellington orders the soldier to be promoted to corporal, for he " knows how to defend a helpless position ".

Ro joins the crew as a troubled young Bajoran officer who had been court-martialled while serving on the USS Wellington, for disobeying orders on an away mission, resulting in eight deaths.

A late start, uncertainty about the direction the Prussians had taken, and the vagueness of the orders given to Grouchy meant that he was too late to prevent the Prussian army reaching Wavre, from where it could march to support Wellington.

However, Wellington did not employ the corps as tactical entities, and continued his accustomed practice of issuing orders directly to divisional and lower commanders.

A Major in the 95th Rifles called Richard and who, " unusually for an officer ... carries a rifle like his men " delivers captured French orders to the Duke of Wellington indicating the enemy's intention to fall back to Vitoria.

On 13 May, the Spanish cavalry attached to Colborne's brigade came into contact with the French force and, in accordance with orders given by Wellington in April, they fell back while sending word of Soult's new position to Beresford.

Leaving Cole's division in place ( according to Beresford, to protect the Allied flank from further cavalry attack, although Wellington was of the opinion that Beresford was actually securing his line of retreat ), Beresford instead called upon Hamilton's Portuguese Division, but Hamilton had moved closer to Albuera to support Alten in fending off Godinot's attack, and the orders took a long time to reach him.

It was 18: 00 that Wellington drafted initial orders to concentrate his army.

In 1832, for example, the British government under the Duke of Wellington overturned a majority government on the orders of the king, George IV, to prevent reform ( the later 1832 Reform Act ).

However, Wellington did not use the corps as tactical entities, and continued his accustomed practice of issuing orders directly to divisional and lower commanders.

Subsequent to the battle, the corps structure was re-established for the advance into France, and Wellington issued orders through Hill and the other corps commanders.

The Tower Menagerie was finally closed in 1835, on the orders of the Duke of Wellington.

The lions in the Tower of London were transferred to more humane conditions at the London Zoo in 1835, on the orders of the Duke of Wellington.

Motions were put in place to move it to a different location but as this could have be seen as insulting to Wellington it was left in place on the orders of the Queen and remained there throughout the remainder of the duke's lifetime.

To the south of the municipality run the Lines of Torres Vedras, constructed on the orders of the Duke of Wellington in 1809-10.

* 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz.

The Duke of Wellington fought Napoleon's forces in the Peninsular War, with Joseph Bonaparte ruling as Napoleon's surrogate king at Madrid.

* 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley ( later the Duke of Wellington ) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.

Napoleon sends part of his army, under Grouchy and Gerard, to pursue Blücher and directs the rest of his forces against Wellington.

* July 22 – Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Lord Wellington defeat French troops near Salamanca in Spain.

Meanwhile, Ney engaged the forces of the Duke of Wellington and the Prince of Orange in the Battle of Quatre Bras on the same day.

Allied to the British, the demoralized Portuguese army underwent extensive reorganizing, retraining and refitting under the command of British General William Carr Beresford, appointed commander-in-chief of the Portuguese forces by the exiled Portuguese Royal family, and fought as part of a combined Anglo-Portuguese army under Wellington.

By late afternoon the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington ’ s allied forces from the escarpment on which they stood.

However, this army was not strong enough to resist the combined coalition forces, so it retreated toward Paris with the armies of Wellington and Blücher and other Coalition forces advancing on the same objective.

The Battle of Salamanca saw Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies under the Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces among the hills around Arapiles south of Salamanca, Spain on 22 July 1812 during the Peninsular War.

Wellington spent the winter reorganising and strengthening his forces.

Soon, the British forces fighting Napoleon in Portugal found that the Portuguese army had a very capable semaphore system giving the Duke of Wellington a decisive advantage in intelligence.

Towards the end of the Peninsular War between France, Spain, Portugal, and Britain in 1814, British and Allied forces, under the Duke of Wellington, entered France and took control of the region and followed Marshall Soult's army, defeating the French near the adjoining town of Tarbes before the final battle took place outside Toulouse on 10 April 1814 which brought the war to an end.

Moore took command of the British forces in the Iberian peninsula following the recall of Harry Burrard of Lymington ( 1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813 ), Hew Dalrymple ( 1750 – 1830 ), Governor of Gibraltar from November 1806 to August 1808, and Arthur Wellesley ( 1769 – 1852 ), later Duke of Wellington, who all faced an inquiry over the Convention of Cintra on the French troops ' evacuation from Portugal.

It is to Soult's credit that he was able to reorganise the demoralised French forces with a rapidity that even took Wellington by surprise.

Napoleon set off via Quatre Bras with the Reserves and combined his forces with the left wing of the Army of the North to pursue Wellington ’ s forces, which were retreating toward Brussels.

Just before the small village of Waterloo, Wellington deployed most of his forces on the rear side of an escarpment.

By late afternoon the French army had not succeeded in driving Wellington ’ s forces from the escarpment on which they stood.

Early in 1814 he was offered, but after consulting Wellington declined, the command of the British forces operating on the side of Catalonia.

The Duke of Wellington placed the majority of his forces on either side of the Brussels road behind the ridge on the Brussels side.

Assembling an army in Belgium to fight Napoleon ’ s resurgent forces in the spring of 1815, the Duke of Wellington formed it into army corps, deliberately mixing units from the Anglo-Hanoverian, Dutch-Belgian and German contingents so that the weaker elements would be stiffened by more experienced or reliable troops.

Waterloo took its name from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, when Allied and Prussian forces under the Duke of Wellington and Blücher defeated the French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

* Booknotes interview with Andrew Roberts on Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It, 12 January 2003.

* Cyclops, a nickname for DM 556, an NZR DM class unit on the rail passenger network of Wellington, New Zealand

In the United Kingdom, one of Brooks's most committed fan bases outside the United States, country music disc jockeys, such as Martin Campbell and John Wellington, noted that many fans were buying the album on import.

The opening ceremony of the L & MR, on 15 September 1830, was a considerable event, drawing luminaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

A microwave telecommunications tower on Wrights Hill in Wellington, New Zealand

This service was operated by the Union Steam Ship Company, and the passenger ferries typically operated an overnight service, although in later years the last of these vessels, the Rangatira, operated alternate nights in each direction plus a daylight sailing between Lyttleton up to Wellington on Saturdays ( so as to get a balance of four sailings in each direction, each week ).

One of these passenger ferries, the Wahine, was lost in a storm as it entered Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.

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.

Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Jocelyn Yvonne ( née Wemyss ) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom were movie set caterers ; his father also managed a hotel.

The original name was Victoria University College, but on the dissolution of the University of New Zealand in 1961 Victoria or " Vic " became the independent Victoria University of Wellington, conferring its own degrees.

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.

Its main campus is in Kelburn, a suburb on a hill overlooking the Wellington central business district, where its administration and humanities & social science and science faculties are based.

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.

Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary who succeeded Wellington, decided mainly on the " suggestions " of Jardine to wage war on China.

* Wellington ( CTA ), rapid transit station on the CTA Brown Line in Chicago, Illinois

* Wellington ( MBTA station ), rapid transit station on the MBTA Orange Line located in Medford, Massachusetts

* Wellington was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Napoleon was finally defeated by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at Waterloo in present-day Belgium on 18 June 1815.

The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.