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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Author’s Note and Acknowledgements

Maps

PART I • 1769–1815

1 Eton, Dublin and Angers, 1769–87

2 An Officer in the 33rd, 1787–93

3 The First Campaign, 1794–5

4 A Voyage to India, 1796–8

5 The Tiger of Mysore, 1799

6 The Governor of Mysore, 1799

7 The Sultan’s Palace, 1800–1

8 Assaye, 1802–5

9 Return to London, 1805–6

10 Kitty Pakenham, 1790–1806

11 Ireland and Denmark, 1806–7

12 Portugal, 1808

13 Board of Enquiry, 1808

14 Across the Douro, 1809

15 ‘A Whole Host of Marshals’, 1809–10

16 From Bussaco to El Bodon, 1810–11

17 Life at Headquarters, 1810–12

18 Badajoz, Salamanca and Madrid, 1812

19 Retreat to Portugal, 1812

20 From Vitoria to the Frontier, 1812–13

21 St Jean de Luz, 1813

22 In London Again, 1814

23 Paris and Vienna, 1814–15

24 Brussels, 1815

25 Waterloo, 1815

PART II • 1815–52

26 The Ambassador, 1815

27 Cambrai and Vitry, 1815–18

28 Stratfield Saye, 1818–20

29 King George IV and Queen Caroline, 1820–1

30 Husband and Wife, 1821

31 Vienna and Verona, 1822–4

32 St Petersburg and the Northern Counties, 1825–7

33 The Prime Minister, 1828–9

34 Battersea Fields and Scotland Yard, 1829

35 The Death of the King, 1829–30

36 Riots and Repression, 1830–2

37 A Bogy to the Mob, 1832

38 Oxford University and Apsley House, 1832–4

39 Lady Friends, 1834

40 The Foreign Secretary, 1834–6

41 Portraits and Painters, 1830–50

42 Life at Walmer Castle, 1830–50

43 The Young Queen, 1837–9

44 Grand Old Man, 1839–50

45 The Horse Guards and the House of Lords, 1842–50

46 Hyde Park Comer, 1845–6

47 Disturbers of the Peace, 1846–51

48 Growing Old, 1850–1

49 Last Days, 1851–2

50 The Way to St Paul’s, 1852

Footnote

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References

Sources

Index

Photo Section

About the Author

Praise

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