THE STORY OFWELLINGTONBYHarold F. B. WheelerF.R.Hist.S.MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONJOINT-AUTHOR OF‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ ETC.AUTHOR OF‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’‘THE STORY OF NAPOLEON’ AND ‘THE STORY OF NELSON’‘For this is England’s greatest son,He that gain’d a hundred fights,Nor ever lost an English gun’TENNYSONLONDONGEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.MCMXIIIllustrations by Ballantyne & Co., Ltd., LondonPrinted by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
THE STORY OFWELLINGTON
BYHarold F. B. WheelerF.R.Hist.S.
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONJOINT-AUTHOR OF‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ ETC.AUTHOR OF‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’‘THE STORY OF NAPOLEON’ AND ‘THE STORY OF NELSON’
‘For this is England’s greatest son,He that gain’d a hundred fights,Nor ever lost an English gun’TENNYSON
‘For this is England’s greatest son,He that gain’d a hundred fights,Nor ever lost an English gun’TENNYSON
‘For this is England’s greatest son,He that gain’d a hundred fights,Nor ever lost an English gun’
TENNYSON
LONDONGEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.MCMXII
Illustrations by Ballantyne & Co., Ltd., LondonPrinted by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
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