In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

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.

Keith Money, a biographer of Anna Pavlova, wrote that a hotel chef in Wellington, New Zealand, created the dish when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour.

She also wrote a two-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington, and a volume of memoirs, The Pebbled Shore.

An infuriated Wellington wrote, " I have never been so much distressed by any military event as by the escape of even a man of them.

After noting that, unlike Lee, his fellow Virginian, Thomas stood by the Union, Sherman wrote: Sherman concluded that Grant and Thomas were " heroes " deserving " monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our city of ' George Washington.

Announcing his death in his typically laconic style, Wellington wrote to Minister of War, Lord Bathurst:

The Duke of Wellington wrote at this time, " France needs a Napoleon!

During World War I, Archer wrote a series of open letters on behalf of Wellington House, arguing Germany's culpability in starting the conflict.

According to Hubert Wellington, Delacroix — who would become the standard-bearer of French Romanticism after Géricault's death — wrote, " Géricault allowed me to see his Raft of Medusa while he was still working on it.

In his introduction to The Journal of Eugène Delacroix, Hubert Wellington wrote about Delacroix's opinion of the state of French painting just prior to the Salon of 1819.

) Much admired for her adaptations of traditional Manchu fashion, which she wore with lace trousers and jade necklaces, Oei Hui-lan was one of the 42 acknowledged children of the Peranakan Chinese sugar magnate Oei Tiong Ham and wrote two memoirs: Hui-Lan Koo ( Mrs. Wellington Koo ): An Autobiography ( written with Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Dial Press, 1945 ) and No Feast Lasts Forever ( written with Isabella Taves, Quadrangle / The New York Times, 1975 ).

In 1846 the Duke of Wellington wrote a public letter to Sir John Burgoyne, Inspector of General Fortifications, expressing his concern about the lack of defensive works along the south coast.

A copy of this paper was sent to Wellington who wrote back a letter to Burgoyne in January 1847 expressing his agreement with all Burgoyne ’ s views and reiterating his earlier arguments.

The Rev G R Glieg also wrote ' The Life of the Duke of Wellington ' a revised edition was published by Longmans, Green & Co London in 1890.

He was a pupil at Wellington College which had previously been attended by the future actor, Christopher Lee, who starred in many of Hammer's horror films, for which he wrote the score.

While attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the 15th September 1830, Huskisson rode down the line in the same train as the Duke of Wellington.

While the Latrobe River flows into Lake Wellington to the east of Sale and includes in its drainage basin a significant part of central Gippsland, the region conventionally known as the Latrobe Valley occupies a smaller area centred on the four major towns of Warragul, Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the westernmost reaches of the Australian Alps to the north.

While the whip was formally introduced to British politics by the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880s, in 1846 the Duke of Wellington advised the new Conservative Party leader Lord Stanley to ensure that his " whippers-in " were personally loyal.

While other parts of Meath were particularly quiet during the War Of Independence, the men from South Meath took the war to the British ; one ambush by one of the Lalor bros took place at the Wellington Monument, where he single-handedly took on a truckload of British with his rifle and grenade, the monument to the British PM still stands.

While F Company, Scots Guards, are now permanently based at Wellington Barracks alongside the resident infantry battalion.

While the family is no longer in France they remain in England with members in Wellington, Somerset, Whitstable in Kent, parts of London and elsewhere.

With her older sister, Anna, born a year and half before her and brother, Michael, born seven years after, Campion grew up in the world of New Zealand theater. While initially rejecting the idea of a career in theater or acting she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975.

While on his way to join the army of Sir Arthur Wellesley ( later the duke of Wellington ), he heard rumours that during the battle of Talavera on 27 – 28 July, Wellesley had been killed.

While serving under Wellington at the Second Battle of Porto, units of Hill's brigade launched an impromptu assault across the Douro River that ultimately routed Marshal Nicolas Soult's French corps from Oporto.

While Wellington won the Battle of Salamanca, Hill protected Badajoz with an independent 18, 000-man corps, including the British 2nd Division, John Hamilton's Portuguese division and William Erskine's 2nd Cavalry Division.

* While ZM was forced to become commercial free in Auckland it was business as usual in Wellington and Christchurch.

While she was a past supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party and worked for the 1995 campaign of rival Tory MPP Brenda Elliott, Sandals defeated her in the Ontario provincial election of 2003 by 2, 872 votes in the riding of Guelph — Wellington.

While the victory over Samoa in Wellington was a good one and that over a demoralised and poorly-coached Japan was by a record score ( 100 – 8 ), the one over Italy in the 2005 Six Nations was a poor one, Scotland retaining victory by 18 – 10

While there, she met and married Denis Sullivan, a Ph. D. physics student who later became an associate professor in physics and astrophysics at Victoria University of Wellington.

: While living in Wellington in the 1960s, Rita Angus painted a number of scenes in Island Bay.

While in Florence in early 1816 Cockerell produced a design for Wellington Palace for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, it would have been in the style of Greek Revival architecture on a scale to rival Blenheim Palace, though in the end nothing came of the proposal.

While it is only sparsely inhabited today, it was once the site of two failed attempts at founding a major trading port on its northern shores, Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay ( 1827-1829 ) and Fort Victoria at Port Essington ( 1838-1849 ), of which the ruins are still accessible today.

While making a perilous journey with two comrades for the purpose of communicating with Sir Edward Belcher, he suddenly disappeared in an opening between the broken masses of ice in the Wellington Channel ( August 1853 ).

While the British government intended to establish Port Essington as a major trading port, along the lines of Singapore, the new settlement suffered from the same adverse conditions that had previously plagued Fort Dundas and Fort Wellington.

While Croker continued to represent the Canningites and Peelites, the party's liberal wing, it also found a place for the more extremely conservative views of Lords Eldon and Wellington.

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.

While exploring the Wellington Caves, one of his men tied his rope to a projecting object which broke when he tried to descend the rope.

Hubert Wellington said that while Delacroix was a lifelong admirer of Gros, the dominating enthusiasm of his youth was for Géricault.

The Duke of Wellington lamented: " If such projects can be carried into execution by a minister of the Crown with impunity, there is no doubt that the constitution of this House, and of this country, is at an end.

Too big for the bomb bay of the Stirling and Wellington, it can be carried only by the Halifax and Lancaster.

Wellington, indeed, as previously mentioned, said that the commander is bound to lay down distinctly the rules according to which his will is to be carried out.

Day to day activities are carried out by a staff of 19 from a Wellington office.

The Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park was visited by 8 % of the Wellington population in 2003 according to research carried out by the Wellington City Council.

Before the Duke of Wellington died in 1852, he had asked that all his battle trophies be carried at his funeral.

On its return to the UK, the squadron was based at RAF Chivenor and carried out anti-submarine mission using Vickers Wellington Mk. XIVs.

In 1993 a feasibility study was carried out by the Wellington regional and city councils and after public consultation in 1994 the idea of a sanctuary was given the go-ahead.

At first, there were many possible execution sites all around the country, but later, the only two cities where hangings were carried out were Wellington ( the capital ) and Auckland ( now the largest city ).

* The Duke of Wellington carried a Mameluke sword from his days serving in India and continued to throughout his career.

He sent propaganda literature that was generated by Wellington House to those on his mailing list, but the letters only carried Parker ’ s name, never mentioning Wellington House or the British government.

On one of those occasions, at Wellington, he carried his bat through the Sri Lankan innings.

After a series of defeats, on 15 November 1830 Henry Parnell's motion for an inquiry into the civil list was carried by 233 to 204 ; this defeat surprised Wellington and his cabinet and forced their resignation.

Among his victories as a three year-old were the Great Northern Derby, Wellington Cup and the first of his two victories in the Easter Handicap, in which he carried, the highest weight ever carried to victory in the race by a three year-old.