History of Europe, Vol. 8: From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV (Classic Reprint) by Archibald Alison (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from History of Europe, Vol. 8: From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV Arthur Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington, was born in Merion Street, Dublin, in the parish of St Peters, where his birth is registered, on the 1st May 1769. He was the fourth son of Garret second Earl of Mornington, and was descended by the mother's side from the Dungann family, his mother having been Anne, eldest daughter of Viscount Dungann. His father was a man of polished manners and kind and hospitable disposition, but t distinguished by any remarkable abilities, except a marked genius for music. his mother was a woman of uncommon vigour of mind, so that lie forms, with Sir Walter Scott, Napoleon, Chateaubriand, Schiller, Goethe, and nearly all the illustrious persons of the last age, ather instance among the many which experience must probably have furnished to every observer, that the sons of a family, at least in general, take their intellectual character from the mother's side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.