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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

1768 births1854 deaths69th Regiment of Foot officersBeresford familyBritish Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
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William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford by Sir William Beechey (2)
William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford by Sir William Beechey (2)

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires.

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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
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