Person general military officer
William Carr Beresford
Guilherme Carr Beresford
general · military officer
British general William Carr Beresford, famous in the Peninsular War. He commanded the British troops that occupied Madeira for the second time on 24 December 1807, received the island's capitulation, and left for Portugal in August 1808.
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- Occupation of Madeira by British troops — British major-general who received Madeira's capitulation in December 1807 and commanded military affairs until August 1808.
2Chronology
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On 24 December 1807 Admiral Samuel Hood's squadron anchored at Funchal with troops under General Beresford, beginning the second British occupation of Madeira, which lasted until October 1814; Henrique Veitch was appointed British consul during it.
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Governor Pedro Fagundes and Beresford signed the capitulation handing Madeira to Britain.
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Beresford left Madeira for Lisbon with half the British forces.
