Show STUPID IN SCHOOL GREW GREAT IN IM BATTLE BAffLE Uneventful Boyhood Developed Into Military Career of World Renown v TUB TIDE DUKE DUIE OF WELLINGTON For this la is England's greatest son eon on He that gained n n. hundred fights tights Nor or ever over lost an English gun No higher r words word of ot praise pralle have ever been pronounced upon nn any general l than thes these thello o lines of ot Tenn Tennyson's sons son's on Wellington Welling Welling- ton tho the greatest of ot England's many great soldiers Arthur R later Duke of ot Wellington WellIngton Wel Wel- lington was born In Dublin Ireland of or Eng English Ish stock In 1769 Young Wellesley Wol- Wol leele lesley s boyhood was teas uneventful He was rather stupid In school chool and was tuns usually spoken of or as the tha dunce dunco of ot the family but as an soon as RS he directed his attentions attention to military affairs the tho boy showed that he was no dunce His advance nd In the tho arm orm was rapid and in 1796 as aH lieutenant colonel ho he woi wont WOl t out to India where so many English soldiers sol sol- 01 diers have secured their first training In actual warfare natural military talents d dot developed rapidly in the native wars and he was promoted d at short Intervals al for tor hl his distinguished I services and was fJ eventually knighted d In 1803 at tho the battle of or I with scant men he routed and overwhelmed overwhelmed over over- whelmed a native tl arm army of or OOOO a foreshadowing fores of the tho great victories Of f Sal and Waterloo In 1805 1505 when he returned tu tv Eng Ens- I land Napoleon was virtual dictator of ot European affairs and England was putting forth all nil her efforts to overthrow overthrow over over- throw tho the great Corsican Wellesley's success In India had gained for him himman man many enemies In England and It was not until 1809 that ho was sent as ns commander In chief to Portugal whore the French armies had overrun o tho the country after aCtor defeating the Spanish troops All north and central Spain and tho the northern part of ot Portugal aa ns well wore ero In the hands of ot tho the French the tho Spanish ann army had ceased to exist tho the English arms arms' army was despondent and the Portuguese demoralized d The moment moment mo mo- I ment that Wellesley elle It sot ot foot In Lisbon tho the change began There watt was a Q reassuring reas reas- suring power In Ms lets appearance alone and the tho allied troops gradually ro regained the confidence which the victories of the French had destroyed had h only onh an army of ot with which to face the tho large French army In the north but after whipping some Portuguese o troops Into shape shapo he turned north to moot moet the tho enemy under Marshal Victor Tho The two armies mot met at Talavera where hero Wellesley snatched victory out of what mod certain defeat for the English and administered adminis adminis- a a. crushing defeat detent to the thc French For this victory victor which Is ono one of ot the greatest En English troops hn have e ever won ho was Vae mado maclo Viscount Wellington ellington Wellington now drew drove up UI a plan of ot campaign cam cam- tho the original of ot which Is still In existence and which Is one of ot tho the most remarkable examples of or visualization of a future campaign on the part Jart of ot a general that can bo found Welling Weiling- ton practically foretold what the tho French would do In the next year During the following winter winter Wel Wel- llIn l- l lIn lington ton who ho was still on the dlf defensive defensive e built butt tho strong fortification at Torres Vedras the famous Lines of ot Torres Vedras When hen the tho French under tinder Massena Massena Mas- Mas sena drove dro Wellington ton south Mouth the tho next nelt year clr ho he fell back behind his and when the French rench pursued they stumbled upon the Lines Line the exIstence ex ex- of It which thc they had not dreamed of or and which barred their W way south Houth completely loh Wellington now assumed the offensive c and 1111 In a series serle of ot brilliant bril bril- campaigns o dro the French out I of t Spain spain and was rend ready to undertake the Invasion of France in 1814 but the first abdication of ot Napoleon apoleon put an nn end and to tho the war Napoleon admitted in after ut- ut af after utter ter years ear that It was the tho Spanish ulcer which had ruined him Wellington ellington now no Duke Duk of ot Wellington Welling Welling- ton returned to England for tor the first tint time In five rive where ho hI was waB loaded loaded load load- 1 ed ad with honors for tor his splendid work In tho the Spanish Peninsula His Ills rest was only to bo be of ot short duration At Atthe tho the news of ot Napoleons Napoleon's escape from 1 Elba iba In IS 1816 Hi he was waR nut put In command of ot th the tho allied armies of ot Belgium On Juno June 18 Napoleon and Wellington met mot on tho the field of or Waterloo Wellington had about men and guns uns while Napoleon had men and guns I Int at nt his hlo command The French advantage advantage nd an tage was somewhat offset b by the tho fact tact t that Wellington hn had the better bettor tion Wellington Yelling had picked the site I of ot Waterloo a 1 year ear earlier in Clue case It should ever e prove pro necessary for tor him to fight In the vicinity of ot Brussels an example of the mans man's almost uncanny foresight Everyone E knows the story of ot Waterloo the superhuman resist resist- slice of ot Wellington and his men to Napoleons Napoleon's the arrival of ot Blucher Blu- Blu chor cher with his hlo Germans Germane and the overthrow overthrow over OYer- throw of or Napoleon Napolson Wellington ton cannot be classed as 5 a brilliant general in tho the sense hat Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- was brilliant All his moves were wore b based eed on careful study and planning planning plan plan- ning and no action was t ever er taken until ert c every circumstance had been ex ex- ex Napoleons Napoleon's skill In strategy y was superior to Wellington's but In tactics tactic or the thc arrangement nt and movement movement move o ment of ot troops on a battlefield Wellington Wellington Wel Wel- 1 lington has hall never Cr been excelled Ho ITo was tuns not a popular general lIe He Wl was wan too harsh and stern to his men but every one ono had Implicit confidence in him As one of his m men mAn n said aid The sight of oC hl his long nose among us was wan worth ten thousand men any day In inthe tho the week His Ills power of ot visualizing tho the moves mO of oC an n enemy enem his tactical l skill and his wonderful foresight madr malee him almost unbeatable Under the demo flomo of or St Str Pauls Paul's in London sloops England's great hero hero Arthur Arthur Welles- Welles Ie Icy ley First Duke of tun |