Talk:Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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 Definition:  (1769-1852) British Army Field Marshal (1813), Commander-in-Chief (1827) and later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1828-1830; 1834), best-known for defeating Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and as the "Iron Duke". [d] [e]
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This might do with clarification. According to WP (some I've seem elsewhere), all the early Prime Ministers called Tories by their opponents and later historians in fact called themselves Whigs. In particular, Pitt (that's what I've seen elsewhere), Bute, North and the Liverpool administration. I haven't managed to find (in a cursory search, any confirmation of what Wellington called himself. Peter Jackson (talk) 05:40, 25 June 2022 (CDT)

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