Beresford left the Marlborough in Spring 1863, and was appointed to the Defence in the summer of 1863.

Beresford passed his seamanship examination to qualify for lieutenant on board the Sutlej, which he left later in 1866.

He and Beresford conducted a reconnaissance of Badajoz on 22 April and by the time he left for the north, he had prepared for Beresford a detailed set of memorandum concerning how he should conduct the impending siege and the rest of the campaign.

Wellington's orders left Beresford full discretion to fight Soult or to retreat and he was personally inclined to the latter course of action.

Standing idle under explicit orders from Beresford, he had nevertheless been considering advancing against the French left flank, but he was wary of moving his infantry across open country in the face of 3, 500 French cavalry.

Beresford left the band in 1994, and performed drum tracks on Tom Cochrane's 1995 album, Ragged Ass Road.

In the battle Beresford was badly wounded, under his left breast, when he was ordering the advance of one of the Portuguese brigades.

When he went ashore on 29 May to be close to the fighting, the larger British vessels were apparently left without orders and only the Beresford attempted to intervene decisively.

Lord Charles Beresford was ' scratched ' on the left hand by a spear as he managed to duck under the gun.

Beresford sent 1, 500 cavalry, under the command of Brigadier General Robert Long after the French.

Beresford coordinated his movements with the remnants of the Spanish Army of Extremadura ( now under the command of General Castaños ), adding 3, 000 infantry and 1, 000 cavalry to his strength.

On 13 May, the Spanish cavalry attached to Colborne's brigade came into contact with the French force and, in accordance with orders given by Wellington in April, they fell back while sending word of Soult's new position to Beresford.

Later that day Long's British cavalry also encountered the advancing French and hastily pulled back — although Long, too, was following Wellington's orders not to engage, Beresford considered his withdrawal somewhat premature and thought Long could have delayed the French by forcing them to deploy.

Soult's movements became even clearer when his Chasseurs à cheval and hussars engaged Long's cavalry at Santa Marta — once again Long retreated in what Beresford considered to be unreasonable haste.

Alarmed, Beresford rode forward to observe the French manoeuvres ; when Godinot's cavalry support and Werlé's brigade began to move away from Albuera and toward Girard's rear, Soult's true intentions became clear.

Leaving Cole's division in place ( according to Beresford, to protect the Allied flank from further cavalry attack, although Wellington was of the opinion that Beresford was actually securing his line of retreat ), Beresford instead called upon Hamilton's Portuguese Division, but Hamilton had moved closer to Albuera to support Alten in fending off Godinot's attack, and the orders took a long time to reach him.

Beresford also had the relatively unscathed Portuguese division, Alten's KGL and several Spanish battalions ready for duty ; Soult, in contrast, only had Godinot's brigade and Latour-Maubourg's cavalry in a fit state to fight.

News that Wellington was marching to Elvas with a further two divisions hastened the Marshal's decision to retreat, as well as persuading Beresford not to launch a premature offensive against Soult's superior artillery and cavalry.

On 18 May Beresford sent Hamilton's Portuguese division, along with some cavalry, back to Badajoz.

Marshal William Beresford reacted promptly to this developing threat and immediately sent William Spry's Portuguese brigade of the 5th Division to engage the French infantry, while Wellington moved the 1st and 7th Divisions to assist.

Beresford deployed Hoghton's brigade behind Zayas's lines and Abercrombie's to the rear of Ballesteros, then moved them forward to relieve the Spaniards.

Allied to the British, the demoralized Portuguese army underwent extensive reorganizing, retraining and refitting under the command of British General William Carr Beresford, appointed commander-in-chief of the Portuguese forces by the exiled Portuguese Royal family, and fought as part of a combined Anglo-Portuguese army under Wellington.

Once the danger had passed, Beresford, under the insistence of Silveira, called a court martial for Francisco Pizarro.

Other major initiatives, under the then Chief Commissioner John Beresford, included the effort to merge and widen several narrow streets into one new street on Dublin's northside, creating Sackville Street ( now called O ' Connell Street ).

In eighteen months The Mandrake Press published over 30 items, including D. H. Lawrence, The Paintings of D H Lawrence together with works by Liam O ' Flaherty, Rhys Davies, Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Warlock under the pseudonym Rab Noolas, S. S. Koteliansky, Aleister Crowley, Thomas Burke, Cecil Roth, Beresford Egan, W. J. Turner, Brinsley MacNamara, Edgell Rickword, Richard Middleton, V. V. Rozanov, Philip Owens, Vernon Knowles, and others.

The expedition was under the command of Major-General William Beresford, soon to make his name in the Peninsula War.

The Allies soon learnt of Soult's investment of Badajoz, and with the threat from Masséna diminished by his withdrawal towards Spain, Wellington prepared to send his 2nd and 4th divisions ( now under the command of General William Beresford ) to relieve the siege.

With his right under heavy pressure and casualties mounting, Beresford finally sent for Alten's KGL, ordering 3, 000 Spaniards to Albuera to relieve them and take over the defence there.

It was scene of a battle ( May 16, 1811 ) between the British troops under William Carr Beresford and the French ones led by Marshal Soult, in the course of the Peninsular war.

It was decided that the architectural and ecclesiological aspects of the project would be put entirely under the control of the Cambridge Camden Society, who appointed Sir Stephen Glynne and Beresford Hope to oversee the work.

The Portuguese army was put under the command of Marshal Beresford and was most heavily engaged under his leadership in the bloody Battle of Albuera.

On June 27, 1806 a small British force of around 1, 500 men under Col. William Carr Beresford successfully invaded Buenos Aires after a failed attempt to stop him from viceroy Rafael de Sobremonte, who fled to Córdoba.

with the intent of cooperating with the Spanish against Marshal Victor, the Anglo-Portuguese forces under Wellesley moved into Spain in the Talavera campaign while Beresford remained on the Águeda River covering the Spanish-Portuguese border.

The most notable action in which Beresford held independent command occurred in 1811 when a combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish army under his command, intercepted a French army commanded by Marshal Soult who had been ordered by Marshal Auguste Marmont to move to protect the important Spanish fortress-city of Badajoz.

* ISBN 0-9522930-7-2, The Fatal Hill: The Allied Campaign under Beresford in Southern Spain in 1811, Mark Sunderland, Thompson Publishing, London 2002, Long Review

He subsequently served with his regiment at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and in South America as aide-de-camp to General ( afterwards Lord ) Beresford, with whom and the rest of the troops under General Beresford's command he was made a prisoner of war, and remained a prisoner for eighteen months, until released under the convention made by General Whitelock.

The fortress of Campo Maior, 15 km to the northeast, is famous for its siege by the French and relief by the British under Marshal Beresford in 1811, an exploit commemorated in a ballad by Sir Walter Scott.

He was a vehement opponent of the increasing demand for Catholic Emancipation ; and when it became known that the Earl FitzWilliam was to succeed Westmorland as Lord Lieutenant in 1795 for the purpose of carrying out a conciliatory policy, Beresford expressed strong hostility to the appointment.

Here they were re-trained by the British ( under the direction of Lieutenant General William Carr Beresford ).

Also on display are the prison cells where Colonel William Carr Beresford, commander of the 1806 British invading forces, and General Cornelio Saavedra, president of the first national government ( Primera Junta ) in 1810, were held.

On 15 July 1884, he married Selina Beresford ( 1859 – 1938 ), daughter of Colonel Francis Beresford MP.