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Vor 6 Tagen · Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC ( 1833 - 1913), was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Garnet Wolseley. Blog. Forrest. The officer of regular troops intrusted with the duty of quickly raising levies for immediate war service is often too prone to think that his one great endeavor should be to “set them up” and so instruct them in drill as to make them look as much 1ike regulars as possible.
6. Mai 2024 · An 1885 cartoon for American magazine Puck shows Lieutenant-General Garnet Wolseley, author of the memorandum against the Channel Tunnel, fleeing an invading French rooster on a...
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14. Mai 2024 · Sir Garnet Wolseley was one of Queen Victoria’s finest soldiers and reached the rank of Field Marshal, the highest in Britain. He spent two and a half years in the United States observing the battles. He crossed the lines many times and got to know commanders on both sides.
2. Mai 2024 · The V&A’s items all date from the third Anglo-Asante War of 1874. On 4 February that year, following Asante efforts to protect the fort of Elmina over which they had a long-held claim, British forces under the command of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley launched a so-called punitive raid on the Asante state
15. Mai 2024 · Dumont took no direct part in the Red River Resistance of 1869–70, although he did rush to Fort Garry to offer military assistance to resist Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s expeditionary force. Some sources indicate that Riel’s Provisional Government declined the offer, hoping instead for a peaceful resolution. During the 1870s and ...
14. Mai 2024 · Of the Southerners, Garnet Wolseley wrote this, ”I can recognise the chivalrous valour of those gallant men who fought not only for fatherland and in defence of home but for those rights most prized by free men” And he went on, ” The history of both armies abounds in gallant and chivalrous deeds done by men who fought for their respective convictions and from a sincere love of country.
