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... LORD RAGLAN . Lord Fitzroy Somerset , afterwards Lord Raglan , was a younger son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort , and of a daughter of Admiral Boscawen . He was born in 1788. He entered the army in 1804. In 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley ...
... LORD RAGLAN . Lord Fitzroy Somerset , afterwards Lord Raglan , was a younger son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort , and of a daughter of Admiral Boscawen . He was born in 1788. He entered the army in 1804. In 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley ...
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... Sir Arthur Wellesley was commissioned to negotiate a treaty of peace between the Mahratta princes and the Nizam . One fine morning the prime minister of the court of Hyderabad came to beg an audience , with a most mysterious countenance ...
... Sir Arthur Wellesley was commissioned to negotiate a treaty of peace between the Mahratta princes and the Nizam . One fine morning the prime minister of the court of Hyderabad came to beg an audience , with a most mysterious countenance ...
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... Sir Arthur Wellesley , afterwards Duke of Wellington , was born on May 1 , 1769. He was the son of the Earl of Mornington , and he descended from a very old family on his mother's side . The celebrated Churchill , Duke of Marl- borough ...
... Sir Arthur Wellesley , afterwards Duke of Wellington , was born on May 1 , 1769. He was the son of the Earl of Mornington , and he descended from a very old family on his mother's side . The celebrated Churchill , Duke of Marl- borough ...
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... Wellesley had under his orders 7,500 men , consisting of 1,500 British ... Sir Arthur was in all the vigour of life . He was thirty - nine years of age ... Wellesley , ' thus wrote General Harrison in 1799 , ' is a model regiment . ' At ...
... Wellesley had under his orders 7,500 men , consisting of 1,500 British ... Sir Arthur was in all the vigour of life . He was thirty - nine years of age ... Wellesley , ' thus wrote General Harrison in 1799 , ' is a model regiment . ' At ...
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