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Title: Wellington-Beresford collection
Dates: 1809-1823
Collection Number: mssHM 21095-21158
Creator OR Collector:
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Extent:
67 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
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.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the
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[Identification of item], Wellington-Beresford collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased from William K. Bixby, before 1924.
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.
The collection is arranged chronologically. It is housed in one box.
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.
Beresford, William Carr, Viscount, 1768-1854, recipient
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Archives
Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820
Manuscripts -- England -- 19th century