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José Miguel De La Cueva, 14th Duke Of Alburquerque
General José Miguel de la Cueva y de la Cerda, 14th Duke of Alburquerque{{in lang, es. Martín-Lanuza, Alberto"José Miguel de la Cueva y de la Cerda". ''Diccionario Biográfico electrónico'' (''DB~e''.).Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 29 April 2023. (1775–1811) was an aristocrat, diplomat, and senior Spanish officer in the Peninsular War.{{sfn, Haythornthwaite, 2004, p=66García León gives his full name as ''José María de la Cueva y de la Cerda, XIV Duque de Alburquerque'' (José María de la Cueva and de la Cerda, 14th Duke of Albuquerque) {{harv, García León, 2007, p=50Oman spells the surname Albuquerque. (Oman, 1902: Transcriber's note.) Biography Early career After serving as a cadet in the Queen's Dragoons Regiment (Regimiento de Dragones de la Reina), he was promoted to captain in 1792. Thanks to his family's influence, he was rapidly promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1793, to colonel the following year and, in 1795, at the age of 19, he was promoted to Cava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Alburquerque
Duke of Alburquerque () is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1464 by Henry IV to Beltrán de la Cueva, his "royal favourite" and grand master of the Order of Santiago. It makes reference to the town of Alburquerque in Badajoz, Spain. Dukes of Alburquerque # Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque (1464–1492) # Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque (1492–1526) # Beltrán de la Cueva, 3rd Duke of Alburquerque (1526–1560) # Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 4th Duke of Alburquerque (1560–1563) # Gabriel de la Cueva, 5th Duke of Alburquerque (1563–1571) #Beltrán III de la Cueva y Castilla, 6th Duke of Alburquerque (1571–1612), Viceroy of Aragón #Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Alburquerque (1612–1637) #Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque (1637–1676), Viceroy of New Spain #Melchor Fernández de la Cueva y Enríquez de Cabrera, 9th Duke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ejército Del Centro (1808)
The Ejército del Centro (Army of the Centre) was one of the four large corps, plus a reserve, that resulted from the re-organisation of the existing regiments and corps of the Spanish Army in the early months of Spain's War of Independence (1808-14), part of the Peninsular War (1807–1814). Background The jubilation following General Castaños Castaños is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza, is one of the 31 states of Mexico. The largest city and State Capital is ...' mid-July victory at Battle of Bailén, Bailén was short-lived, and Christophe Antoine Merlin, General Merlin's sacking of Bilbao, on 16 August 1808,Napier, William Francis Patrick and Mathieu Dumas (1828)''Histoire de la guerre dans la Péninsule et dans le midi de la France, depuis l'année 1807 jusqu'a l'année 1814'', Volume I, p. 287-8. Treuttel et Würtz.''Google Books''. Retrieved 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1775 Births
Events Summary The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement on April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's ride. The Second Continental Congress took various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) and a Marine force (November 10) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British (June 12) and American (July 15) governments make laws. On July 6, Congress issues the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and on August 23, King George III of Great Britain declares the American colonies in rebellion, announcing it to Parliament on November 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilson (British Army Officer, Born 1777)
General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (17 August 1777 – 9 May 1849) was a British Army officer and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Southwark from 1818 to 1831. He served as the Governor of Gibraltar from 1842 until his death in 1849. Early career Born in London, he was the grandson of a Leeds wool merchant, and the fourth child of painter and portraitist Benjamin Wilson. Orphaned at the age of twelve he was raised and educated by his uncle and guardian, William Bosville, later attending Westminster School. He eloped in his twenties with Jemima, the daughter of Colonel William Belford. They had thirteen children in the following 15 years. Military life He had a distinguished career in the Army and the diplomatic service. In 1794, as an ensign in the 15th Light Dragoons, Wilson fought in the celebrated Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley of Norragh. He was also Lord Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain. Richard Wellesley first made his name as fifth Governor-General of Bengal between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War. Wellesley was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and Anne, the eldest daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. His younger brother, was Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ruiz De Apodaca, 1st Count Of Venadito
Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza, 1st Count of Venadito, OIC, OSH, KOC (3 February 1754 – 11 January 1835) was a Spanish Navy officer, nobleman and colonial administrator who served as the viceroy of New Spain from 20 September 1816 to 5 July 1821 during the Mexican War of Independence. Military career Ruiz de Apodaca was born in Cádiz into a family of renowned Basque merchants. He began his military career on November 7, 1767 as part of the marine guard, and three years after he was named frigate lieutenant, being continuously promoted until reaching the rank of naval lieutenant on May 23, 1778. At this time he also married Maria Rosa Gaston with whom he had seven children. He sailed as a junior officer throughout the northern and the southern hemisphere on various ships. He was commissioned to go to Tahiti on the friguate ''Aguila'', where he gathered much info about the area, drawing up charts of the island and its ports. He was promoted to frigate captain in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th The King's Hussars
The 15th The King's Hussars was a Cavalry regiments of the British Army, cavalry regiment in the British Army. First raised in 1759, it saw service over two centuries, including the World War I, First World War, before being amalgamated with the 19th Royal Hussars into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in 1922. History Early wars The regiment was raised in the London area by George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield as Elliots Light Horse as the first of the new regiments of light dragoons in 1759. It was renamed the 15th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1760. The regiment landed in Bremen in June 1760 for service in the Seven Years' War. The regiment were largely responsible for the victory, suffering 125 of the 186 allied casualties at the Battle of Emsdorf in July 1760. Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet, William Erskine, commanding the regiment, presented George III of the United Kingdom, King George III with 16 colours captured by his regiment after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Square
Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, central London. Centred north of Oxford Street it measures internally north-to-south, and across. It is a small Georgian square, predominantly 1770s-designed. Construction began around 1776. The north side has a central mansion, Hertford House, which is flanked by approach ways. Its first name was Manchester House and since 1897 it has housed the Wallace Collection of fine and decorative arts. The square forms part of west Marylebone, most of which sees minor but overarching property interests held by one owner (through lease reversions managed as the Portman Estate). Many buildings have been recognised by statutory protection as listed buildings. Notable residents Among residents figured: *Admiral Sir Thomas Foley (1757–1833), and his noble wife (later widow) at № 1 * Julius Benedict (1804–1885), German-born composer, at № 2 *John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911), English neurologist, at № 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James's, Spanish Place
St James' Church is a large English Gothic Catholic church in George Street, Marylebone, London. Although currently situated in George Street, the church maintains its connection with Spanish Place, the road opposite the current church, because of its historic connection with the Spanish Embassy. It is a Grade II* listed building. Site The church is located in George Street, Marylebone, behind the Wallace Collection and close to Marylebone High Street. History In the reign of Elizabeth I the Bishops of Ely let their palace and chapel in Ely Place to the Spanish Ambassador and, until the reign of Charles I, it was occupied by the High Representative of the Court of Spain. During this period the chapel (now St Etheldreda's Church) was freely used by English Catholics and became a sanctuary to some degree for them, in a manner typical of an embassy chapel. After the restoration of Charles II the Spanish Embassy was re-established in London, first on Ormond Street and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs. At least 16 royal weddings have taken place at the abbey since 1100. Although the origins of the church are obscure, an abbey housing Benedictine monks was on the site by the mid-10th century. The church got its first large building from the 1040s, commissioned by King Edward the Confessor, who is buried inside. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. The monastery was dissolved in 1559, and the church was made a royal peculiar – a Church of England church, accountable directly to the sovereign – by Elizabeth I. The abbey, the Palace of Westminster and St Margaret's Church became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Of Saint James
The Court of St James's serves as the official royal court for the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The court formally receives all ambassadors accredited to the United Kingdom. Likewise, ambassadors representing the United Kingdom are formally accredited from this court. The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, known as Master of the Ceremonies before 1920, serves as the liaison between the British monarch and foreign diplomatic missions. The Marshal is stationed permanently at St James's Palace. As of 1886, there were merely six ambassadors in London, while 37 other countries were represented by ministers. (The custom, developed in the 18th century, was that only monarchies sent ambassadors, while others sent ministers; this distinction was abrogated toward the end of the 19th century.) By 2015, the number of foreign missions accredited to the Court of St James's had risen to 175, including 47 high commissions from Commonwealth countries and 128 embassies from non-Commonwealth countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cádiz
Cádiz ( , , ) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated from neighbouring San Fernando, Cádiz, San Fernando by a narrow isthmus. Cádiz, one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post.Strabo, ''Geographica'' 3.5.5 In the 18th century, the Port in the Bay of Cádiz consolidated as the main harbour of mainland Spain, enjoying the virtual monopoly of trade with the Americas until 1778. It is also the site of the University of Cádiz. Situated on a narrow slice of land surrounded by the sea‚ Cádiz is, in most respects, a typical Andalusian city with well-preserved historical landmarks. The older part of Cádiz, within the remnants of the defensive wall, city walls, is commonly refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
