article_snippet: The Duke of Wellington is famously quoted as saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
article_snippet: Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was a British leader who is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton College when a British leader who is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton College when he was a student in the 1780s was a student in the 1780s.
article_snippet: The Duke of Wellington attended Eton, which was founded in the 15th Century by King Henry VI, before a British leader who is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton College when he was a student in the 1780s joined the army in 1787 and later helped defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.
article_snippet: According to history, a British leader who is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton College when he was a student in the 1780s touched the ground at Eton and claimed: 'There grows the stuff that won Waterloo.'
article_snippet: a British leader who is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton College when he was a student in the 1780s was later misquoted repeatedly as having said: 'It is here that the Battle of Waterloo Waterloo was won.'
article_snippet: Around 100 years before the image of taken the Duke of Wellington is said to have traversed the playing fields at Eton where his was a student.
article_snippet: Touching the ground, history claims his said: 'There grows the stuff that won Waterloo.'
article_snippet: his was later misquoted repeatedly as having said: 'It is here that the battle of Waterloo was won.'
article_snippet: The fields were made famous when described by Lord Wellington as the place 'there grows the stuff that won Waterloo' Eton College was founded in the 15th Century by King Henry VI to school 70 poor boys.