Spanish town to claim for Duke of Wellington estate: report < Spanish news | Expatica Spain

Spanish town to claim for Duke of Wellington estate: report < Spanish news | Expatica Spain: "town in Spain is planning a legal claim for an estate run by the descendents of Britain's Duke of Wellington which a historian believes was obtained illegally, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Spain gave the Duke of Wellington, considered to be one of Britain's greatest military commanders, a farm near the southwestern city of Granada in recognition of his aid during the 1808-1814 Peninsular War against France.
But his first agent, Josef O'Lawlor, added other land to the estate without any royal decree to authorise the move, local historian Miguel Angel Espejo told daily newspaper El Pais.
'Many noblemen took advantage of the slovenliness of the administration of royal land and arbitrarily expanded their boundaries,' he added."