“I have long intended to write to you about the medal for Waterloo. I recommend that the men should all have the same medal, hung on the same ribbon as that now used with the medals....
OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF FIELD-MARSHAL THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, WITH THE PUBLIC HONOURS AND EMOLUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN CONFERRED UPON HIM.
| Born | 1st May, 1769. |
| Ensign | 7th March, 1787. |
| Lieutenant | 25th December, 1787. |
| Captain | 30th June, 1791. |
| Major | 30th April, 1793. |
| Lieutenant-Colonel | 30th September, 1793. |
| Colonel | 3d May, 1796. |
| Major-General | 29th April, 1802. |
| Lieutenant-General | 25th April, 1808. |
| General, in Spain and Portugal | 31st July, 1811. |
| Field-Marshal | 21st June, 1813. |
| Governor of Seringapatam | 6th May, 1799. |
| The inhabitants of Calcutta vote a sword of the value of 1,000l. to Major-General Wellesley | 21st February, 1804. |
| The officers of his division vote to Major-General Wellesley a gold vase, which is afterwards changed to a service of plate embossed with “Assye.” | 26th February, 1804. |
| Appointed a Knight Companion of the Bath | 1st September, 1804. |
| Thanked by parliament | 8th March, 1805. |
| Returned to serve in parliament | 12th April, 1806. |
| Sworn a Privy Counsellor | 8th April, 1807. |
| Secretary to Ireland | 19th April, 1807. |
| Negotiates capitulation at Copenhagen | 5th September, 1807. |
| Thanked in parliament for the same. | 1st February, 1808. |
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A piece of plate, commemorating the battle of Vimeiro, voted to Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley by the general and field-officers who served at it | 22d August, 1808. |
| Thanked in parliament for Vimeiro | 27th January, 1809. |
| Appointed to command the army in Portugal | 2d April, 1809. |
| Appointed Marshal-General of the Portuguese army | 6th July, 1809. |
| Created Baron Douro of Wellesley and Viscount Wellington of Talavera | 26th August, 1809. |
| Thanks of parliament voted for Talavera | 1st February, 1810. |
| Pension of 2,000l. per annum, voted to him and his two succeeding heirs male | 16th February, 1810. |
| Thanks of parliament for the liberation of Portugal | 26th April, 1811. |
| License granted in the name of the King by the Prince Regent, to accept the title of Conde do Vimeiro, and the insignia of Knight Grand-Cross of the Tower and Sword from the prince regent of Portugal | 26th October, 1811. |
| Created by the regency of Spain a Grandé, with the title of Duque de Ciudad-Rodrigo | January, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Ciudad-Rodrigo | 10th February, 1812. |
| Advanced in the British peerage by the title of Earl Wellington | 18th February, 1812. |
| Voted 2,000l. per annum in addition | 21st February, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Badajoz | 27th April, 1812. |
| The order of the Golden Fleece conferred by the regency of Spain | July, 1812. |
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Appointed Generalissimo of the Spanish armies | 12th August, 1812. |
| Advanced in the British peerage by the title of Marquis of Wellington. | 18th August, 1812. |
| Advanced by the regent of Portugal to the title of Marquez de Torres-Vedras | 12th September, 1812. |
| Thanks of parliament for Salamanca. | 3d December, 1812. |
| A grant of 100,000l. from parliament, to be laid out in the purchase of lands as a reward for his services. | 7th December, 1812. |
| Advanced by the regent of Portugal to the title of Duque da Victoria. | 18th December, 1812. |
| Elected a Knight of the Garter | 4th March, 1813. |
| Thanks of parliament for the battle of Vittoria | 8th July, 1813. |
| The regency of Spain, on the proposition of the Cortes, offers to bestow on the Duque de Ciudad-Rodrigo the estate of Soto-de-Roma, in Granada | 22d July, 1813. |
| Thanks of parliament for San-Sebastian and the operations subsequent to Vittoria | 8th October, 1813. |
| The prince Regent grants permission to the Marquis of Wellington to accept and wear the insignia of Grand-Cross of the following orders: Imperial and Royal Austrian Military order of Maria-Theresa; Imperial Russian Military order of St.-George; Royal Prussian Military order of the Black Eagle; Royal Swedish Military order of the Sword | 4th March, 1814. |
| Thanks of the Prince Regent and the parliament for Orthez | 24th March, 1814. |
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Advanced in the British peerage by the titles of Marquis of Douro and Duke of Wellington | 3d May, 1814. |
| A grant of 400,000l. voted by parliament, in addition to the former grants | 24th June, 1814. |
| Ambassador to France | 5th July, 1814. |
| Assists at Congress at Vienna | January, 1815. |
| Takes command of the British forces on the continent | 11th April, 1815. |
| Battle of Waterloo | 18th June, 1815. |
| Thanks of the Prince Regent and parliament for Waterloo | 22d June, 1815. |
| A grant of 200,000l. voted by parliament, in addition to the former grants | 6th July, 1815. |
| Created Prince of Waterloo by the king of the Netherlands | 18th July, 1815. |
| Commander in chief of the allied armies of occupation | 22d October, 1815. |
| Appointed Field-Marshal in the Austrian, Russian and Prussian armies | 15th November, 1818. |
| Visits Waterloo with George IV | 1st October, 1821. |
| Commander in Chief | 22d January, 1827. |
| First Lord of the Treasury | 13th February, 1828. |
| Appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports | 20th January, 1829. |
| Elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford | 29th January, 1834. |
