WATERLOO 200 THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PUBLICATION FOR THE BICENTENARY COMMEMORATIONS Edited by Robert McCall With an introduction by Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter KCVO OBE DL £6.951 TheThe 200th Battle Anniversary of Issue Waterloo Date: 8th May 2015 The Battle of Waterloo The Isle of Man Post Offi ce is pleased 75p 75p Isle of Man Isle of Man to celebrate this most signifi cant historical landmark MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 in collaboration with 75p 75p Waterloo 200. 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Telephone: (01624) 698430 FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE – SAME DAY DESPATCH Facsimile: (01624) 698434 Email: [email protected] WATERLOO 200 Contents TheThe 200th Battle Anniversary of Issue Waterloo Date: 8th May 2015 The Battle of Waterloo The Isle of Man Post Offi ce is pleased 75p 75p Isle of Man Isle of Man to celebrate this 5 34 most signifi cant historical landmark MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 in collaboration with 75p 75p Waterloo 200. Isle of Man Isle of Man MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 SET OF 8 STAMPS MINT 75p 75p TH31 – £6.60 Isle of Man Isle of Man 6 13 PRESENTATION PACK TH41 – £7.35 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 P5 A BICENTENARY WORTHY P13/32 IN THEIR OWN WORDS P58/75 THE EVENTS OF THE FIRST DAY COVER 75p 75p OF NOTE BICENTENARY Isle of Man Isle of Man TH91 – £7.30 The battle as they saw it, by SHEET SET MINT An introduction by Waterloo those who participated, and by A detailed round up of the many TH66 – £26.40 200 committee chairman Major their descendants. events commemorating the MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 MM&C The Battle of Waterloo 2015 General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter bicentenary of Waterloo. 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FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE – SAME DAY DESPATCH Facsimile: (01624) 698434 Email: [email protected] 3 WATERLOO 200 Wellington College The Royal Charter founding Wellington College was signed and sealed in 1853, and the College opened for the first pupils in 1859. The College was the result of public recognition of the life and work of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, by the personal wish of Queen Victoria, who was anxious to ensure a living memorial to the “greatest Englishman that ever lived”. The school would provide an education for the sons of living or deceased Army Officers, and the Monarch’s intention was that these sons of heroes should learn the values of duty, courage and service that had so characterised the life of the Great Duke. That 725 Wellingtonians made the ultimate sacrifice in The Great War, along with over 500 in the Second, suggests that such values were deeply imbued in the hearts of the pupils from the very beginning. Much has changed since then of course, but the determination to place service at the centre of all that the school does remains. The school has been co-educational since 1975, fully so for the last ten years, and true to its heritage has always sought to remain at the forefront of educational innovation: Wellington enshrines best practice in all that it does, and where the school leads, many others follow. Set in 400 acres of beautiful parkland 40 minutes from Heathrow, Wellington College offers an outstanding education to girls and boys aged 13-18, creatively fusing history and tradition with a 21st century commitment to innovation and globalism. Academic results are stellar: in 2014 94.7% of grades at A-level were A*-B; the IB Diploma average was 40. Pupils follow national and international curricula with iGCSEs, A-levels, and the IB Diploma on offer. The College is currently celebrating record Oxbridge success with 24 students being offered places at these prestigious universities. School life is based on the unique “eight aptitude” approach, and a national reputation in sports, arts, service, wellbeing and leadership ensures that every Wellingtonian becomes the best they can be. It is for these reasons that Tatler recently crowned Wellington College “Best Public School”, and why it is so proud to be a part of the 200th Anniversary Celebrations of Waterloo. While that battle may indeed have been won on the playing fields of Eton, we are sure that it is Wellington College that best preserves the memory of the Duke’s greatest success. 4 [email protected] | www.wellingtoncollege.org.uk | +44 (0) 1344 444 013 WATERLOO 200 Chairman’s Introduction by Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE, DL, Chairman Waterloo 200 am often asked why we should celebrate the Versailles failed to learn in 1918. Wellington and Battle of Waterloo. It was a long time ago and Castlereagh were the architects of this scheme Iit would only annoy the French. Both may be and so not only won the war but they also won true but both the question and the comment miss the peace. This is why this period of European the point. In the first instance the firm intention history is so important. It is Waterloo that made is to commemorate and not in any way glorify or Europe. be triumphalist. Nevertheless many hundreds of Waterloo 200 is a charity established to build thousands died on both sides during the course through education an enduring and widespread of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic awareness of the historical and cultural Wars. Although a century away from the First importance of the Battle of Waterloo. One of our World War they merit remembering and indeed in objectives has been to create a digital learning proportional terms to population the numbers of resource available to formal learners and those dead in the two wars were not that different. But interested in this period of history. It is centred Waterloo is a significant moment in history; it is on 200 iconic items related to Waterloo and the as the military historian, the late Richard Holmes period. Also available are teaching materials and put it, “a full stop in European history”. It is not ways to register or trace ancestors. Running widely understood that it is the consequences of alongside is a programme encouraging schools the battle which are so important to understand, across the country and an educational spectrum rather than the detail, always so fascinating, to study Waterloo. Currently we are working with of the battle itself. Victor Hugo characterised over 200 schools and hope to expand this to 1000 Waterloo as “the hinge on the door to the 19th schools by 2020. Century”. The metaphor signals the importance of the battle as the closing event in the first global This commemorative publication is conflict lasting 22 years in which military actions complementary to our work and picks up on one had taken place on sea and land, across Europe, of our major themes.