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William Carr Beresford Beresford, Viscount

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

William Carr Beresford Beresford, Viscount 1768-1854, British general. He served with distinction in Egypt (1801-3) and participated (1806) in the capture of Cape Colony (later Cape Province , South Africa) from the Dutch. He captured Buenos Aires in 1806 but held it only briefly before it was retaken by Jacques de Liniers . Beresford occupied Madeira (1807) and for a time was governor of the island. Joining Arthur Wellesley (later duke of Wellington) in Portugal (1808), he successfully reorganized the Portuguese army and was prominent throughout the Peninsular War . Created viscount in 1823, he was master general of ordnance in Wellington's cabinet from 1828 to 1830.

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