Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Alexander II of Russia, Catherine the Great, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Charles XIV John of Sweden, William I, German Emperor, Grigory Potemkin, Alexander Suvorov, Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Mikhail Kutuzov, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angouleme, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Nicholas Repnin, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Ivan Paskevich, Levin August, Count von Bennigsen, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Vasily Chichagov, Petr Ivanovich Panin. Excerpt: Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington," even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington. Born in Ireland, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later in India, where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799. Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he...