“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”

About Arthur Wellesley

Statesman • British

Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His military career culminated in 1815 at...