Garnet Joseph Wolseley

Lord Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913) was a British field-marshal, born in county Dublin, of a Staffordshire family. He entered the army in 1852, served in the Burmese War of 1852-1853. He also served in the Crimean War, where he was severely wounded, and in the Chinese War of 1860, and afterwards in Canada. He commanded in the Ashantee War in 1878, and received the thanks of Parliament, with a grant of £25,000, for "courage, energy, and perseverance" in the conduct of it, and after services in Natal, Egypt, and Ireland was made field-marshal in 1894, and commander-in-chief in 1895.

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