I'm fully aware of the veracity of both the miners' shooting being an unreported miners story - I am last aware that it might just be based on fact - it certainly is not beyond the realms of possibility - one miner was reported to have been battoned to death by a policeman (maybe one of your historians can show that this didn't happen)
I am also aware that the Duke of Wellington Story is an urban myth (I actually researched the story) - but it is an indication of the unpopularity of a despicably arrogant man, which is why I put it up - and, as someone has pointed out, his heirs were no better - it seems to be a family trait.
What I am most aware of is that whenever any whiff of criticism of "our betters" come sup on this forum, you will leap up like a cat with a flea up its arse to tell us that they ever did it.
I suggest that you would do this far more efficiently if you didn't try to talk down to people from the holes you persist in digging for yourself.
On the other hand, it is useful to have a living example of the contempt those you defend hold the rest of us in, in your own behaviour.
Keep it up
Jim Carroll