In Battle of Salamanca, an Anglo-Portuguese army under who, which was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain?
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the first rank of Britain's military heroes.
Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes General Ulysses de Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 August 1788 – 26 July 1864), was an Irish soldier and Tory politician. A General in the British Army, he served as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under Lord Liverpool between 1820 and 1827. After succeeding a cousin as second Baron Downes in 1826, he sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1833 until his death.