Tutor information
Nick Lipscombe
CColonel Nick Lipscombe MSc, FRHistS is a historian and author specialising in the Napoleonic Wars. He has written several books including the award winning Peninsular War Atlas, Waterloo a Decisive Victory, Wellington’s Guns & Wellington’s Eastern Front.
Courses
This course will focus on the life of the Duke of Wellington: his military triumphs and political contests, his private life, his difficult marriage and his turbulent affairs. Wellington the man, 'long nose and all'.
This course will examine Britain's struggle during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and the peace process that followed, concentrating on the exploits and achievements of four pivotal characters, Pitt, Nelson, Castlereagh and Wellington.