Question: Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet, was a senior officer of the British Army during the early nineteenth century, his long and varied career saw extensive action, including engagements in the Peninsular War as one of the Duke of Wellington's generals, Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of which 19th-century country?

Context articles: Lord Charles Wellesley
Prince of Waterloo
Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet
Duke of Wellington (title)
Blockade of Almeida
Alexander Dickson (British Army officer)
Sir John Slade, 1st Baronet
John Fox Burgoyne
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington

Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley (16 January 1808 – 9 October 1858) was a British politician, soldier and courtier.
 He was the second son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Catherine Pakenham.
 He was educated at Eton College.
 He married Augusta Sophia Anne Pierrepont, daughter of The Hon. Henry Pierrepont, on 9 July 1844.
 Wellesley represented the Conservative Party as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Hampshire from 1842 to 1852, and the MP for Windsor from 1852 to 1855.
 He was also a Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshall to Queen Victoria.
 His older brother, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, died in 1884 with no heirs and Lord Charles's eldest surviving son, Henry Wellesley, inherited his uncle's dukedom.
 Lord Charles's second son succeeded his childless brother as Duke of Wellington in 1900.
Prince of Waterloo (Dutch: "Prins van Waterloo") is a title in the Dutch and Belgian nobility, held by the Duke of Wellington.
 The title was created by William I of the Netherlands for Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as a victory title in recognition of defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
 The Duke of Wellington and all his descendants along male line belong to Dutch and Belgian nobility, in which all the descendant dukes carry the title of "Prince of Waterloo" with the style "Serene Highness" (Dutch: "Doorluchtigheid" ).
 The rest of his family retain the Dutch honorific "Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw".
 Common law is that nobility and accompanying titles inherit along male line.
Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (20 August 176011 December 1824) was a senior officer of the British Army during the early nineteenth century.
 His long and varied career saw extensive action, including engagements in Europe during the American Revolutionary War, in India during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and subsequently in the Peninsular War as one of the Duke of Wellington's generals.
 Badly wounded during the Peninsular campaign, Campbell was rewarded with a knighthood and a baronetcy, later holding a number of prestigious military commands.
Duke of Wellington is a hereditary title of the senior rank in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
 It derived from Wellington in Somerset, and was created for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington (born The Hon. Arthur Wesley) (1769–1852), the Anglo-Irish Army leader who is distinguished for leading the decisive victory with Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher over Napoleon Bonaparte's forces at Waterloo in Brabant (now Walloon Brabant, Belgium); Wellesley later served twice as British Prime Minister.
 General references to "the Duke of Wellington" usually refer to Arthur Wellesley as the 1st Duke of Wellington, unless the context suggests a later date.
In the Blockade of Almeida (14 April – 10 May 1811) a French garrison under Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand was surrounded by approximately 13,000 Anglo-Allied soldiers led by Generals Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet.
 After a French relief attempt failed, Brenier and his troops broke out at night after blowing up portions of the fortress.
 To the fury of the British army commander Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, most of the French escaped due to their commander's single-minded determination, British fumbling, and remarkably good luck.
 The action took place during the Peninsular War portion of the Napoleonic Wars.
 Almeida, Portugal is located near the Spanish border about 300 km northeast of Lisbon.
 The town was originally captured from a Portuguese garrison during the 1810 Siege of Almeida.
Major General Sir Alexander Dickson (3 June 177722 April 1840) was a British Army officer who served in the artillery.
 He fought at many battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington had the highest opinion of his abilities and made him the effective commander of his army's artillery during the latter part of the Peninsular War.
General Sir John "Black Jack" Slade, 1st Baronet, GCH (31 December 1762 – 13 August 1859) served as a general officer in the British Army during the Peninsular War.
 He lacked talent as a combat leader.
 Though Slade was praised in official reports, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington criticized his actions privately and finally replaced him with a more efficient officer.
 Despite this, he attained high rank after the war.
 His descendents include two admirals.
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (24 July 1782 – 7 October 1871) was a British Army officer.
 After taking part in the Siege of Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars, he saw action under Sir John Moore and then under the Duke of Wellington in numerous battles of the Peninsular War, including the Siege of Badajoz and the Battle of Vitoria.
 He served under Sir Edward Pakenham as chief engineer during the War of 1812.
 He went on to act as official advisor to Lord Raglan during the Crimean War advocating the Bay of Kalamita as the point of disembarkation for allied forces and recommending a Siege of Sevastopol from the south side rather than a coup de main, so consigning the allied forces to a winter in the field in 1854.
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.
The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya of the British general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington during the latter's service in the Peninsular War.
 One of three portraits Goya painted of Wellington, it was begun in 1812, after the subject's entry into Madrid, showing him as an earl in red uniform and wearing the Peninsular Medal.
 The artist then modified it in 1814 to show him in full dress black uniform with gold braid and to add the Order of the Golden Fleece and Military Gold Cross with three clasps (both of which Wellington had been awarded in the interim).