Its name is frequently attributed to a 19th-century English general named Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.

A surviving menu from this banquet shows that his guests tucked into a lavish multi-course feast, but there’s one glaring omission: the dish to which to the duke lends his name, beef wellington.

Beef Wellington has been around since the early 1800s, believed to have first been created to celebrate the victory at ...

When it comes to beef dishes in Palm Beach, one in particular rarely fails to be a showstopper. That it may have been named after Napoleon-vanquisher the Duke of Wellington is the last thing ...

In Shanghai, beef Wellington shows up mainly in French restaurants, though the dish’s origins are hard to pinpoint. It has French roots, but the dish is named after the Duke of Wellington ...

Beef Wellington was one of Gourmet Traveller’s original cover ... But its origins date back much further, beyond the 17th-century duke for which it is named, and all the way back to Roman times. For ...

The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.