What name links Spain's oldest university (dating to 1218) and an 1812 battle involving the Duke of Wellington?
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington units of the retrained Portuguese army. Campaigning in Spain, he routed the French at the Battle of Salamanca, taking advantage of a minor French mispositioning. The victory liberated the Spanish capital of Madrid. As a reward, he was created Earl of Wellington, in the county of Somerset on 22 February 1812, and then Marquess of Wellington, in the said county on 18 August 1812, and given command of all Allied armies in Spain. Wellington attempted to take the vital fortress of Burgos, which linked Madrid to France. But failure, due in part to a lack of siege guns, forced him
Duke of Wellington (title) of Waterloo ("Prins van Waterloo", 1815) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo ("Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo", 1812) of the Kingdom of Spain, and Duke of Victoria ("Duque da Vitória", 1812), with the subsidiary titles Marquess of Torres Vedras ("Marquês de Torres Vedras", 1812) and Count of Vimeiro ("Conde de Vimeiro", 1811) of the Kingdom of Portugal. These were granted to the first Duke as victory titles for his distinguished services as victorious commanding general in the Peninsular War (in Spain and Portugal) and at the Battle of Waterloo (in what is now Belgium). The family seat