Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes
… one of the silliest devils I ever knew
1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1769-1852, British Chief General at Waterloo, Ambassador to France, Prime Minister (Tory), Derrogatory description of Don Carlos, Quoted in Williams, The Story of Spain
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Train was an ardent supporter of Women’s Suffrage; however, he did not favor negro suffrage until they were sufficiently educated. He was also a Democrat. This alienated Garrison and other leading abolitionists. However Train was such an effective speaker for women’s rights that Anthony and her colleagues kept traveling with him on the lecture circuit. He was the one, for example, that initiated the creation of their periodical, Revolution.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister. He ended the Napoleonic Wars when he defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.