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Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
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Portrait of Field Marshal Mikhail Barclay
de Tolly
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Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and Field
Marshal-General Mikhail Barclay de Tolly are depicted in large full-length
portraits hung in the central part of the War Gallery. The "Iron
Duke", a British national hero, commanded the allied forces on
the Iberian peninsula in 1803-13 with considerable success. The peak
of Wellington's martial glory came at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 when
an Anglo-Dutch army under his command together with Prussian units
under Field Marshal Blücher inflicted a crushing defeat on Napoleon's
army.
Mikhail Barclay de Tolly was Alexander I's Minister of War in 1810-12.
An outstanding military man, he prepared the army for the forthcoming
war with Napoleonic France and devised a strategy based on withdrawal
deeper into Russian territory and wearing down the enemy.
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