A lot of the reason that WEllington is so worshipped as a God of the Battlefield is because most of te Historians who have written both in that period and after it, were in fact loyal, Nationalistic British. Yes, he was a good general, but could he have organised something as masterful as Napoleon's Italian Campaign? What about the Rhine Campaigns? It wasn't so much that Wellington beat Napoleon, it was more that Napoleon beat Napoleon at Waterloo and in Spain (Though he wasn't there).