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See also:BLAKENEY, 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 BLAKENEY, See also:BARON (1672-1761) , See also:British soldier, was See also:born at See also:Mount Blakeney in See also:Limerick in 1672. Destined by his See also:father for politics, he soon showed a decided preference for a military career, and at the See also:age of eighteen headed the tenants in defending the Blakeney See also:estate against the Rapparees. As a volunteer he went to the See also:war in See also:Flanders, and at the See also:siege of See also:Venlo in 1702 won his See also:commission. He served as a subaltern throughout See also:Marlborough's See also:campaigns, and is said to have been the first to See also:drill troops by See also:signal of See also:drum or See also:colour. For many years after the See also:peace of See also:Utrecht he served unnoticed, and was sixty-five years of age before he became a See also:colonel. This neglect, which was said to be due to the hostility of See also:Lord See also:Verney, ceased when the See also:duke of See also:Richmond was appointed colonel of Blakeney's See also:regiment, and thenceforward his advance was rapid. Brigadier-See also:general in the See also:Cartagena expedition of 1741, and See also:major-general a little later, he distinguished himself by his gallant and successful See also:defence of See also:Stirling See also:Castle against the Highlanders in 1745. Two years later See also:George II. made him See also:lieutenant-general and lieutenant-See also:governor of See also:Minorca. The governor of that See also:island never set See also:foot in it, and Blakeney was See also:left in command for ten years.
In 1756 the Seven Years' War was preluded by a See also:swift descent of the See also:French on Minorca. Fifteen thousand troops under See also:marshal the duc de See also:Richelieu, escorted by a strong See also:squadron under the See also:marquis de la Gallisonniere, landed on the island on the 18th of See also:April, and at once began the siege of Fort St See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, where Blakeney commanded at most some 500o soldiers and workmen. The defence, in spite of crumbling walls and rotted See also:gun platforms, had already lasted a See also:month when a British See also:fleet under See also:vice-See also:admiral the Hon. See also:John Byng appeared. La Gallisonmere and Byng fought, on the loth of May, an indecisive See also:battle, after which the relieving squadron sailed away and Blakeney was left to his See also:fate. A second expedition subsequently appeared off Minorca, but it was then too See also:late, for after a heroic resistance of -seventy-one days the old general had been compelled to surrender the fort to Richelieu (April 18–June 28, 1756). Only the ruined fortifications were the See also:prize of the victors. Blakeney and his little See also:garrison were transported to See also:Gibraltar with See also:absolute See also:liberty to serve again. Byng was tried and executed; Blakeney, on his return to See also:England, found himself the See also:hero of the nation. Rewards came freely to the See also:veteran. He was made colonel of the See also:Enniskillen regiment of See also:infantry, See also:knight of the See also:Bath, and Baron Blakeney of Mount Blakeney in the Irish See also:peerage. A little later See also:Van Most's statue of him was erected in See also:Dublin, and his popularity continued unabated for the See also:short See also:remainder of his See also:life. He died on the loth of See also:September 1761, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
See See also:Memoirs of General William Blakeney (1757).
End of Article: BLAKENEY, WILLIAM BLAKENEY, BARON (1672-1761)
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