Wellington: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wellington, credited to George Hooper, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Wellington by George Hooper. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsular Campaign. As a youth. his mother saw little promise in him, but Wellesley was an early riser and a hard worker, inured to the harsh life of the army camp, and conscientious in his knowledge of terrain and of defensive tactics. He famously commanded the allied forces at the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, but the two men never actually met. Although a staunch conservative, as prime minister in 1829, he was persuaded by Robert Peel to approve the long-overdue Catholic Relief Act. The journalist, George Hooper, penned this lively little biography in 1889, when he wrote that there were still many people alive who could "cherish the recollection of the silver-haired veteran, wearing a blue coat and white waistcoat and trousers, riding or walking through the streets, or painfully listening with one hand to his best ear, in the House of Lords." - Summary by Pamela Nagami

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wellington
• Author credits: George Hooper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:50:04

Catalogue topics

• Napoleonic Wars
• napoleon
• Waterloo
• duke of wellington
• arthur wellesley
• peninsular campaign
• mahratta campaign

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch. 1: Arthur Wesley — 25:51
2. 02 - Ch. 2: Wellesley's Early Indian Service, Pt. 1 — 41:56
3. 03 - Ch. 2: Wellesley's Early Indian Service, Pt. 2 — 39:47
4. 04 - Ch. 3: The Mahratta Campaigns, Pt. 1 — 26:09
5. 05 - Ch. 3: The Mahratta Campaigns, Pt. 2 — 21:47
6. 06 - Ch. 4: Home: Soldier and Civilian — 16:28
7. 07 - Ch. 5: The First Rescue of Portugal — 20:42
8. 08 - Ch. 6: The Second Rescue of Portugal — 41:22
9. 09 - Ch. 7: The Last Campaign in Portugal, Pt. 1 — 37:47
10. 10 - Ch. 7: The Last Campaign in Portugal, Pt. 2 — 29:09
11. 11 - Ch. 8: Wellington's Offensive Campaigns, Pt. 1 — 35:02
12. 12 - Ch. 8: Wellington's Offensive Campaigns, Pt. 2 — 32:41
13. 13 - Ch. 9: Waterloo, Pt. 1 — 27:12
14. 14 - Ch. 9: Waterloo, Pt. 2 — 24:35
15. 15 - Ch. 10: Diplomatist and Statesman, Pt. 1 — 22:15
16. 16 - Ch. 10: Diplomatist and Statesman, Pt. 2 — 18:42
17. 17 - Ch. 11: Old Age — 8:38

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