On the fall of the great emperor, Louis XVIII presented this statue to the British government, by whom it was afterwards given to the Duke of Wellington.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

More significant was the discovery of fossilised bones of " some quadruped much larger than the ox or buffalo " in the Wellington Caves in mid-1830 by bushman George Rankin and later by Thomas Mitchell.

The next archdeacon was W. H. Rigg and in 1953 the assistant bishop John Wellington became additionally Archdeacon of Bodmin.

It was Piter's techniques and torture that broke Wellington Yueh, the Atreides Suk doctor's Imperial Conditioning against taking a life.

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.

The Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated by the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington in 1815

In this war, Spain was aided by the British and Portuguese, led by the Duke of Wellington.

It was at this time that the elegant Pelham Crescent and Wellington Square were built: other building followed.

This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington.

On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

He became Attorney-General, and was knighted when Canning formed his ministry in 1827 ; and though he resigned when the Duke of Wellington came into power in 1828, he resumed office in 1829 and went out with the Duke in 1830.

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

The first motorway was built in the environs of Wellington and opened in 1950, between Takapu Road and Johnsonville.

Wellington was for a long time the only city of New Zealand that retained a well-patronised commuter rail system.

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.

Defeated by Napoleon at Ligny, he re-buffs advice by General Gneisenau, who says he does not trust " the English ", to retreat eastwards towards Germany, and instead retreats north to Wavre so as to maintain contact with Wellington.

According to Nevill ( citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy ), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, " There grows the stuff that won Waterloo ", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to " the manly character induced by games and sport " amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.

Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum in Wellington, celebrated its first birthday in February 1999 with the creation of the world's largest pavlova, named " Pavzilla ", which was cut by the Prime Minister of the time, Jenny Shipley.

Although Brock's correspondence indicates a certain amount of paternal condescension for the natives, he seems to have regarded Tecumseh himself very highly, calling him " the Wellington of the Indians ", and saying " a more sagacious or a more gallant warrior does not I believe exist ".

A committee of three men from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was responsible for choosing a name from among the entries ; although it considered the names " Wellington " and " Gladmere ", it chose the name " Bethany Beach " suggested by H. L. Atkinson of the University of Chicago.

South Ayrshire's Headquarters, " County Buildings ", are located in Wellington Square, Ayr.

* During World War II, " Wimpy ", in reference to the character, was the nickname given to the Vickers Wellington bomber.

* " Alice, Where Art Thou ", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher

* C. B. Mayne, " Moore ", in Spenser Wilkinson, From Cromwell to Wellington ( London, 1899 )

Green Wellington boots, introduced by Hunters in 1955, gradually became a shorthand for " country life " and have been popularly thought to be typical not only of " country folk " but also of people who are really townies but wear " green wellies " because they want to be thought to be " country folk ", in the same way that they own Range Rovers or other 4x4 vehicles which are never driven off road.

In some parts of Ireland one can hear older people refer to their Wellington boots as " topboots ", usually black in colour, as this was a popular name for Wellingtons in the 1960s.

Stockport's museums include the " Hat Works ", based in Wellington Mill, was a thriving hat factory in Victorian times and Stockport Air Raid Shelters based around the underground tunnels dug during World War II to protect local inhabitants during air raids.

Hobson sent his Colonial Secretary, Willoughby Shortland, and some soldiers, to Port Nicholson ( Wellington ) to raise the Union flag and put an end to what his administration perceived as a challenge to British sovereignty – a " colonial council ", complete with primitive legal institutions, headed by Wakefield and Smith.

* Overture ( includes " With heart and with voice ", " When he is here ", " Dear friends, take pity on my lot ", and " My name is John Wellington Wells ")

As a famous " Old Wellingtonian ", generations of headmasters tried to contact him, without success, with Morley stating " the only reason for me visiting Wellington would be to burn it down ".

* The letters of 1815 noted above, and a Lettre au duc de Wellington (" Letter to the Duke of Wellington ", 1817 )

" Wellington has made them ", replied someone.

* John H. Wellington, " Southern Africa: a geographical study ", Chapter 16 LAKES AND PANS

In the second half of 2008, Shihad toured New Zealand on the " Beautiful Machine Tour ", playing medium-size venues such as the Wellington Town Hall, with support from The Mint Chicks and Luger Boa.

Major exhibitions of her work include Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan ( 1987 ); Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York ( 1989 ); " Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 – 1969 ", LACMA, 1998 ( traveling to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ), 1998 – 99 ; Le Consortium, Dijon, 2000 ( traveled to Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris ; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark ; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse ; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ; and Artsonje Center, Seoul, 2001 – 2003 ); " KUSAMATRIX ", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 ( traveling to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido ); " Eternity – Modernity ", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ( touring Japan ), 2004 – 2005 ; and " The Mirrored Years ", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008 ( traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009 ).

In 1916 Orwell won a scholarship to Wellington College, a school with a military background appropriate for colonial service.

In the film, when a reticent official asks what he can possibly say to the RAF to persuade them to lend a Vickers Wellington bomber for flight testing the bomb, Wallis suggests: " Well, if you told them that I designed it, do you think that might help?

The sailors attempted to sail towards Wellington, but with Te Kooti's expertise at sailing were caught and told they would be thrown overboard if they did not keep a course for the East Coast.

A reference to Darby and Joan appears in The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson ( 1825 ), the well-known courtesan who the Duke of Wellington famously told to " publish and be damned!

Johnston told the Wellington battalion to continue the attack.

Their story is told in Wellington and the Arbuthnots by E. A. Smith.

Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, told an Ottawa audience at Lansdowne Park in 1874: “ The Duke of Wellington had previously decided that Ottawa was a most important point from a military point of view and had caused the Rideau canal to be built .”

" We appointed Jay as chairman of the ( island's ) internal committee in the period after the trials and before this election ," Forbes told Radio New Zealand from his office at the British High Commission ( the equivalent of an embassy in Commonwealth countries ) in Wellington.

Speaking from his British High Commission office in Wellington, New Zealand, Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes told Radio New Zealand that he welcomed Jay Warren's election as Mayor.

The story is told that his birthplace was said to be Wellington, without mentioning that it was not the Somerset market town but the one in New Zealand ; in fact, this was how Somerset had skirted the regulations for Peter Randall Johnson before World War I.