The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.

HMS Iron Duke is the third ship to bear the name and was launched in 1991 and takes her name from Wellington, “the Iron Duke” who triumphed over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. She ...

HMS Iron Duke is the third ship to bear the name and was launched in 1991 and takes her name from Wellington, “the Iron Duke” who triumphed over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. She displaces 4,900 ...

The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an ...