Lieutenant-General
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Sir Samuel Robert Wesley ( – 5 January 1877) was an Anglo-Irish
Royal Marines
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officer who served as
Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Early life
Wesley was the son Robert Wesley and Ellen Butt of Lismoat or Lismote Castle,
County Limerick
County Limerick () is a western Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Reg ...
,
Kingdom of Ireland
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, where he was born around 1791.
Military career
Wesley was commissioned into the
Royal Marine Artillery
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.
He saw action in
Spain
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during the
First Carlist War
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1840, the first of three Carlist Wars. It was fought between two factions over the succession to the throne and the nature of the Monarchy of Spain, Spanish monarchy: the conservative a ...
[ before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces. He became Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in December 1854 and directed the involvement of the Royal Marines during the ]Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
before retiring in January 1862.
References
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1790s births
1877 deaths
Military personnel from County Limerick
Royal Marines lieutenant generals
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Military personnel of the First Carlist War
British military personnel of the Crimean War
19th-century Royal Marines personnel