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Vor 5 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 5 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.
Vor 3 Tagen · General Sir William Butler, was an enigmatic member of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Ashanti Ring of officers in the British Army during the late 19th century.And yet, despite being part of Queen Victoria’s army as it painted large parts of the globe British red, he was also a passionate supporter of Irish Home Rule and of Boer Independence in South Africa.Indeed, there was a brief moment when he ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Book: Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory. Michael Silvestri. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN: 9780230216747; 272pp.; Price: £55.00. Reviewer: Dr James Lees. Institute of Historical Research. Citation: Dr James Lees, review of Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory, (review no. 1132)
Vor 5 Tagen · The representatives of Garnet Wolseley, deceased, were patrons in 1980. In 1968 Nettlecombe became part of a united benefice with Monksilver and Brompton Ralph, and since 1977 has been held in addition with Stogumber. The benefice was valued at £8 in 1291. In 1535 it was worth £17 6s. 7d.
Vor einem Tag · Irish War of Independence. Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in Kent, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Forrest (Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley) “His force was largely composed of wild and reckless men who all looked to him as their master, their leader, and over whom he had obtained the most complete control. He possessed that rare tact — unlearnable from books — which enabled him not only effectually to ...
