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Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833 – 25 March 1913), was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the ...
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Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley was an influential commander with important victories in several 19th-century colonial campaigns. Because of his reforming zeal and attention to detail the phrase ‘All Sir Garnet’ came to mean everything’s in order.
May 31, 2024 · Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (born June 4, 1833, Golden Bridge, County Dublin, Ire.—died March 26, 1913, Mentone, France) was a British field marshal who saw service in battles throughout the world and was instrumental in modernizing the British army.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
One of the most popular British generals of the nineteenth century, Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913) is little known today outside of military and academic circles. Recognized in his own time for resourcefulness, bravery, and strong organizational skills, Wolseley transformed the British army into a modern fighting force.
In 1861 Wolseley was posted to the Canadian command as assistant quartermaster-general at the time of the Trent crisis [ see Sir Charles Hastings Doyle* ], but he arrived, on 5 Jan. 1862, after the immediate threat of war with the United States had passed.
Jan 29, 2008 · British General Sir Garnet Wolseley led the Nile Expedition of 1884-85, the attempt to relieve the siege of Khartoum, Sudan, and rescue the British governor general of Sudan, Major-General Charles Gordon. Wolseley also served in Canada from 1861 to 1870. (photo by James Ashfield, courtesy Canada.
Yet in the end Wolseley’s claim to have been Queen Victoria’s most faithful soldier seems reasonable, for he served in her Army for forty-eight years and was her leading general, either as field officer or as War Office administrator, for most of the last three decades of her reign.
