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See also:BERESFORD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, See also:VISCOUNT (1768–1854) , See also:British See also:general and Portuguese See also:marshal, illegitimate son of the first See also:marquess of See also:Waterford, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:October 1768. He entered the British See also:army in 1785, and while in Nova See also:Scotia with his See also:regiment in the following See also:year lost the sight of one See also:eye by a See also:shooting See also:accident. He first distinguished himself at See also:Toulon in 1793, receiving two years later the command of the 88th regiment (See also:Connaught Rangers). In 1799 his regiment was ordered to See also:India, and a few months later Beresford See also:left with See also:Sir See also:David See also:Baird's expedition for See also:Egypt, and was placed in command of the first See also:brigade which led the See also:march from Kosseir across the See also:desert. When, on the evacuation of Egypt in 1803, he returned See also:home, his reputation was established. In 18o5 he accompanied Sir David Baird to See also:South See also:Africa, and was See also:present at the See also:capture of Cape See also:Town and the surrender of the See also:colony. From South Africa he was despatched to South See also:America. He had little difficulty in capturing Buenos Aires with only a couple of regiments. But this force was wholly insufficient to hold the colony. Under the leadership of a See also:French emigre, the See also:chevalier de Tiniers, the colonists attacked Beresford, and at the end of three days' hard fighting he was compelled to capitulate. After six months' imprisonment he escaped, and reached See also:England in 1807, and at the end of that year he was sent to See also:Madeira, occupying the See also:island in the name of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Portugal. After six months in Madeira as See also:governor and See also:commander-in-See also:chief, during which he learnt Portuguese and obtained an insight into the Portuguese See also:character, he was ordered to join Sir See also:Arthur See also:Wellesley's army in Portugal. He was first employed as commandant in See also:Lisbon, but accompanied Sir See also:John See also:Moore on the advance into See also:Spain, and took a conspicuous See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:Corunna (see See also:PENINSULAR See also:WAR). In See also:February 1809 Beresford was given the task of reorganizing the Portuguese army. In this task, by systematic weeding-out of inefficient See also:officers and men, he succeeded beyond expectation. By the summer of 1810 he had so far improved the moral and discipline of the force that See also:Wellington brigaded some of the Portuguese regiments with See also:English ones, and at Busaco Portuguese and English fought See also:side by side. Beresford's services in this battle were rewarded by the British See also:government with a See also:knighthood of the See also:Bath and by the Portuguese with a See also:peerage.
In the See also:spring of 1811 Wellington was compelled to detach Beresford from the Portuguese service. The latter was next in seniority to General (See also:Lord) See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill who had gone home on sick leave, and on him, therefore, the command of Hill's See also:corps now devolved. Unfortunately Beresford never really gained the confidence of his new troops. At Campo See also:Mayor his See also:light See also:cavalry brigade got out of See also:hand, and a regiment of dragoons was practically annihilated. He invested See also:Badajoz with insufficient forces, and on the advance of See also:Soult he was compelled to raise the See also:siege and offer battle at See also:Albuera. His See also:personal courage was even more than usually conspicuous, but to the initiative of a juniorstaff officer, See also:Colonel (afterwards Viscount) 13ardinge, rather than to Beresford's own generalship, was the hardly-won victory to be attributed. Beresford then went back to his See also:work of reorganizing the Portuguese army. He was present at the siege of Badajoz and at the battle of .See also:Salamanca, where he was severely wounded (1812). In 1813 he was present at the battle of See also:Vittoria, and at the battles of the See also:Pyrenees, while at the battle of the Nivelle, the Nive and See also:Orthez he commanded the British centre, and later he led a corps at the battle of See also:Toulouse. At the See also:close of the Peninsular War he was created See also:Baron Beresford of Albuera and Cappoquin, with a See also:pension of L2000 a year, to be continued to his two successors.
In 1819 the revolution in Portugal led to the dismissal of the British officers in the Portuguese service. Beresford therefore left Portugal and placed the question of the arrears of pay of his army before the king at Rio Janeiro. On his return the new Portuguese government refused to allow him to See also:land, and he accordingly left for home. On arriving in England he turned his See also:attention to politics, and strongly supported the See also:duke of Wellington in the See also:House of Lords. In 1823 his See also:barony was made a viscounty, and when the duke of Wellington formed his first See also:cabinet in 1828 he gave Beresford the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:master-general of the See also:ordnance. In 183o Beresford retired from politics, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time subsequently he was occupied in a heated controversy with William See also:Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, who had severely criticised his See also:tactics at Albuera. On this subject Wellington's See also:opinion of Beresford is to the point. The duke had no illusions as to his being a See also:great general, but he thought very highly of his See also:powers of organization, and he went so far as to declare, during the Peninsular War, that, in the event of his own See also:death, he would on this ground recommend Beresford to succeed him. The last years of Beresford's See also:life were spent at Bedgebury, See also:Kent, where he had See also:purchased a See also:country See also:estate. He died on the 8th of See also:January 1854.
End of Article: BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, VISCOUNT (1768–1854)
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