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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician (d. 1854)

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, 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.

2 October 1768

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