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.

Wellington was " beastly ", Orwell told his childhood friend Jacintha Buddicom, but he said he was " interested and happy " at Eton.

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.

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.

The Lions won all of their games that did not have test status except for the matches against Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury ; they did however lose three of their four test matches against the All Blacks, winning the first test 6 – 3 ..

Research conducted at the Victoria University of Wellington showed that breasts are often the first thing men look at, and for a longer time than other body parts.

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

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

* 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

On 12 September, the Chinese representative, Wellington Koo, appealed to the League for international intervention.

Passenger ferry service also operated for many years between Wellington and Lyttleton ( the port closest to Christchurch ).

By 1841 the settlers, particularly those in the New Zealand Company settlement of Wellington, were calling for local militia to be formed.

Wellington and Tim's personal styles and their visions for the club clashed, and eventually they stopped talking to each other.

The desire for South Island independence was one of the main factors in moving the capital of New Zealand from Auckland to Wellington that year.

The armies of Wellington and Von Blucher defeated Napoleon once and for all at Waterloo.

A smaller campus in the Te Aro district of Wellington is the base for the architecture and design schools.

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

French morale collapses and a general retreat begins, as Wellington gives the signal for a general advance.

* Wellington, Somerset, for which the title Duke of Wellington is named

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

In April 2010, Heineken USA introduced the Wellington glass, branded as the " Geordie Schooner ," for Newcastle Brown Ale consumers in America.

In foreign policy, Key announced the withdrawal of New Zealand Defence Force personnel from their deployment in the war in Afghanistan, signed the Wellington Declaration with the United States and pushed for more nations to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.

His sponsor for the election ( besides his father ) was the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next 25 years.

Ponsonby and Wellington both marvel at the precision of the French formations, while Wellington refuses permission to an artillery officer to fire long range shot at Napoleon himself.

However, Napoleon did not rule France again for very long, suffering a decisive defeat at the hands of the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June.

A colony of male fur seals has long been established near Red Rocks on the Makara Coast, west of Wellington.

Unseen by the French, Wellington assembled a powerful striking force along the long side of the British L.

At the same time, Wellington launched the 5th and 4th Divisions, backed by the 7th and 6th Divisions, at the long side of the French L.

At the end of Eastbourne beyond Burdan's gate there is a long pedestrian-only coastal road ( unsealed ) which extends out to the Wellington Harbour entrance heads.

Beyond this, the river is briefly confined by a steep-sided gorge near Taita ( pronounced " tie-tah "), before the land opens up into a long triangular plain close to the outflow into Wellington Harbour.

The opening, in November 1863, of the railway from Cape Town to Wellington, and the construction in 1860 of the great breakwater in Table Bay, long needed on that perilous coast, marked the beginning in the colony of public works on a large scale.

Unto the last she received the homage of the great ; even the Duke of Wellington attended her receptions, and carriages were drawn up before her door nearly all day long.

Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, gave the house and its most important contents to the nation in 1947, but by the Wellington Museum Act 1947 the right of the family to occupy just over half the house was preserved " so long as there is a Duke of Wellington ".

" The King, however, though he had long inclined to favour Tories over Whigs, was still angry at the refusal of Wellington and Peel to serve in Canning's cabinet.

Wellington has a long running " One Love " festival that celebrates peace and unity.

" Benchley stated that " Winninger and Wellington Cross, with that ease and facile kidding which comes to comedians after a long run, are a highly comic pair.

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.

The move continued a long tradition of pastoral care at Wellington, including religious education and PSHE programmes.

On March 1, 1910, an avalanche at Wellington ( renamed " Tye " after the disaster ), near the West portal of the original 2. 6-mile ( 4 km )- long Cascade Tunnel, killed 96 people ( or 101 people according to Middleton ), the deadliest avalanche disaster in U. S. history.

Despite her short career in parliament, she demonstrated that women could successfully seek election, and it was not long before a second woman ( Catherine Stewart in 1938, elected for Wellington West ) entered parliament.

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.

On the 5th of May 2004, a hikoi ( a long walk or march — in this case, a protest march ) arrived in Wellington.

His policy was to focus on the rail freight operation, and sell any assets which were not core to this business, such as long distance passenger trains ( Tranz Scenic ) and commuter services in Wellington and Auckland ( Tranz Metro ).