Wellington-Beresford Collection, 1809-1823

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Title:: Wellington-Beresford collection
Dates:: 1809-1823
Creators:: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Abstract:: The collection consists mostly of dispatches from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford, a general under Wellesley, giving instructions.
Extent:: 67 items
Language:: The records are in English .
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Wellington-Beresford collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Scope and content:: The collection covers the training and equipping of Portuguese troops during the Peninsular War; acquisition of supplies; troop movements during the war; and routine administrative matters. It is primarily dispatches from Wellington to Beresford giving instructions; map of a "Plan of Attack Upon the French on the Heights of Rolica," and a lock of hair taken from the mane of the Duke of Wellington's horse. There are 12 items written by Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.
Biographical / historical:: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, commanded the allied armies of Britain, Spain, and Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula from 1809 through 1813 against the forces of Napoleon. A key general under him was William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford (1768-1854), who from 1809 through 1810 concentrated on reorganizing the Portuguese Army.
Acquisition information:: Purchased from William K. Bixby, before 1924.
Arrangement:: The collection is arranged chronologically. It is housed in one box.
Rules or conventions:: Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Brooke M. Black.
Date Prepared:: © 2015
Date Encoded:: Machine readable finding aid encoded by Brooke M. Black in April 2015

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Restrictions:: Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following web site.
Terms of access:: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Wellington-Beresford collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:: Huntington Library, Manuscript Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US