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 History of the Bean Family page 31.

[ Alexander Louis Wellington contd. ]



Bourbons. This was an opportunity for a young Willoughby Bean to go to his father in Amboise where the Callte (?) was living at the time of the famous battle. On reaching Paris they put up at the Palais Bourbon, the set of the present Republic. Here Willoughby was with the Duke & Gen. Stephenson, and after a ...
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History of the Bean Family page 31.
[ Alexander Louis Wellington contd. ]

Bourbons. This was an opportunity for a young Willoughby Bean to go to his father in Amboise where the Callte (?) was living at the time of the famous battle. On reaching Paris they put up at the Palais Bourbon, the set of the present Republic. Here Willoughby was with the Duke & Gen. Stephenson, and after a short time was sent by the General on to Amboise. So, when Alexander was born in 1816 he received that name after his grandfather and the Emperor of Russia: Louis after the then King of France Louis XVIII and Wellington after the Duke, under whose protection his brother Willoughby, who was also his Godfather, had come to France.

General Stephenson, Uncle to the wife of Old Major Willoughby Bean, was Officer in Command of Arthur Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington. The two were deeply attached, Wellesley was ordered by Gen. Stephenson to make a flank movement on Seringa Plateau, while the General assaulted from another point. Wellesley blundered and came too late. Stephenson however carried Seringa Plateau: but recognising the promise and merits of Wellesley did not report him. Wellesley was grateful for this generous act, to which he owed his career of greatness. Subsequently the General acted as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington in 1815.


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