| dbo:abstract |
Field Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney GCB GCH PC (Ire) (26 March 1778 – 2 August 1868) was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer with the expedition to Dutch Guiana and being taken prisoner by privateers three times suffering great hardship, he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. He also joined the expedition to Denmark led by Lord Cathcart in 1807. He went on to command the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment of Foot and then both battalions of that regiment at many of the battles of the Peninsular War. After joining the Duke of Wellington as he marched into Paris in 1815, Blakeney fought in the War of 1812. He then commanded a brigade in the army sent on a mission to Portugal to support the constitutional government against the absolutist forces of Dom Miguel in 1826. His last major appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, a post he held for nearly twenty years. (en) Edward Blakeney (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1778 – Londra, 2 agosto 1868) è stato un generale britannico. Blakeney nacque a Newcastle upon Tyne, quarto figlio del colonnello William, membro del Parlamento irlandese, e di sua moglie Costanza Brudenell, figlia di James Brudenell, V conte di Cardigan. Apparteneva ad una famiglia della piccola gentry di campagna anglo-britannica di origini gallesi. Nel 1794 entrò nell'esercito britannico come alfiere nell'8th Light Dragoons. Accompagno il maggior generale White nelle Indie occidentali come capitano del 99th Regiment of Foot e partecipò alla cattura di Demerara, Berbice e Essequibo nel 1796; inoltre fu per tre mesi prigioniero di alcuni corsari malesi. Nel 1798 partecipò all'evacuazione di Santo Domingo; l'anno seguente partecipò alla spedizione contro i Paesi Bassi con il 7th Regiment of Foot nella flotta comandata da William Cathcart nel Baltico, prendendo parte anche alla cattura della flotta danese e alla resa di Copenaghen; nel 1809 fu trasferito in Martinica. Blakeney servì durante la guerra d'indipendenza spagnola tra il 1811 e il 1814 a capo del 1st Battalion 7th Foot come tenente colonnello; servì sotto Wellington in Portogallo, partecipando alla battaglia di Bussaco contro i francesi di Ney e Massena e alla battaglia di Albuera con William Beresford, I visconte Beresford e il generale spagnolo Blake y Joyes. Partecipò anche alla battaglia di Ciudad Rodrigo e alla presa di Badajoz (dove fu gravemente ferito al braccio durante l'assalto), e alle battaglie di Vitoria, Pamplona e dei Pirenei. Nel 1815 fu trasferito in Belgio sempre agli ordini di Wellington, partecipando alla battaglia di Waterloo e alla presa di Parigi. Dopo essere stato insignito di varie medaglie commemorative alle guerre di Spagna e Portogallo, il 2 gennaio 1815 fu creato cavaliere dell'Ordine del Bagno. Il 20 settembre 1832 divenne colonnello del 7th Foot; quattro anni dopo succedette a Hussey Vivian, I barone Vivian come Comandante in Capo dell'Irlanda e il 7 maggio 1836 sciolse il Private Council of Ireland, divenendo molto impopolare; il 7 maggio 1849 divenne cavaliere di gran croce dell'Ordine del Bagno; tornato in Inghilterra nel 1855, fu nominato governatore del Royal Hospital Chelsea dal 6 febbraio al 25 settembre 1856; il 9 novembre 1862 fu promosso maresciallo di campo e nominato colonnello in capo della Rifle Brigade il 28 agosto 1865. Nel 1814 aveva sposato Maria, figlia del colonnello Paul Gardiner della Compagnia delle Indie Orientali; la signora Blakeney morì al Chelsea Hospital nel 1866; Blakeney morì due anni dopo, morendo il 2 agosto 1868; venne seppellito a Twickenham. (it) |
| dbo:allegiance |
United Kingdom |
| dbo:award |
dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Guelphic_Order dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath |
| dbo:battle |
dbr:Peninsular_War dbr:French_Revolutionary_Wars dbr:War_of_1812 |
| dbo:militaryBranch |
dbr:British_Army |
| dbo:militaryCommand |
Commander-in-Chief of Ireland |
| dbo:occupation |
dbr:Royal_Hospital_Chelsea |
| dbo:serviceEndYear |
1855-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:serviceStartYear |
1794-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
| dbo:thumbnail |
wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Edwardblakeney.png?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink |
https://books.google.com/books%3Fid=j4pzVbKRFE8C&pg=PA304%7Cyear= |
| dbo:wikiPageID |
13907146 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength |
12075 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID |
1121058798 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink |
dbr:Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines) dbr:Privateer dbr:Royal_Fusiliers dbr:Royal_Leicestershire_Regiment dbr:Royal_Scots dbr:Santo_Domingo dbr:Battle_of_Albuera dbr:Battle_of_Alkmaar_(1799) dbr:Battle_of_Bergen_(1799) dbr:Battle_of_Bussaco dbr:Battle_of_Castricum dbr:Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807) dbr:Battle_of_Krabbendam dbr:Battle_of_New_Orleans dbr:Battle_of_Nivelle dbr:Battle_of_Vitoria dbr:Battle_of_the_Pyrenees dbr:Denmark dbr:Hundred_Days dbr:Hussey_Vivian,_1st_Baron_Vivian dbr:Peninsular_War dbr:United_Kingdom dbr:Dutch_colonisation_of_the_Guianas dbr:Lieutenant dbr:Lieutenant_colonel dbr:121st_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794) dbr:Colonel dbr:Colin_Halkett dbc:Recipients_of_the_Army_Gold_Cross dbr:Edward_VII dbr:England dbr:French_Revolutionary_Wars dbr:General dbr:George_Bell_(British_Army_officer) dbr:George_Brown_(British_Army_officer) dbr:Anglo-Russian_invasion_of_Holland dbr:London dbr:Lord_Justices_(Ireland) dbr:Major dbr:Siege_of_Badajoz_(1812) dbr:Siege_of_Ciudad_Rodrigo_(1812) dbr:Commander-in-Chief,_Ireland dbr:7th_Regiment_of_Foot dbr:99th_Regiment_of_Foot_(1794) dbc:18th-century_Irish_people dbr:British_Army dbc:British_Army_personnel_of_the_Napoleonic_Wars dbc:Military_personnel_from_Newcastle_upon_Tyne dbr:Twickenham dbr:War_of_1812 dbr:William_Cathcart,_1st_Earl_Cathcart dbr:Cornet_(military_rank) dbr:Richmond_House,_Twickenham dbr:Rifle_Brigade_(Prince_Consort's_Own) dbr:47th_(Lancashire)_Regiment_of_Foot dbr:8th_King's_Royal_Irish_Hussars dbr:Alexander_George_Woodford dbr:Alured_Clarke dbr:East_India_Company dbr:Field_marshal_(United_Kingdom) dbr:Nova_Scotia dbr:Paris dbr:Royal_Hospital_Chelsea dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Guelphic_Order dbr:1st_Regiment_of_Foot dbr:James_Kempt dbr:Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington dbc:1778_births dbc:1868_deaths dbc:19th-century_Irish_people dbc:Knights_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath dbc:Members_of_the_Privy_Council_of_Ireland dbc:8th_King's_Royal_Irish_Hussars_officers dbc:People_from_County_Galway dbr:Chelsea,_London dbc:British_Army_personnel_of_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars dbc:British_field_marshals dbc:Burials_in_England dbr:John_Colborne,_1st_Baron_Seaton dbr:William_Blakeney_(died_1804) dbr:Henry_Clinton_(Napoleonic_Wars) dbr:File:Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg dbc:Commanders-in-Chief,_Ireland dbr:Martinique dbr:Miguel_I_of_Portugal dbr:Newcastle_upon_Tyne dbr:Order_of_the_Bath dbr:Major_general dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath dbr:Lieutenant-general dbr:File:Bataille_de_la_Nivelle.jpg |
| dbp:after |
dbr:John_Colborne,_1st_Baron_Seaton |
| dbp:allegiance |
United Kingdom (en) |
| dbp:awards |
dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Guelphic_Order dbr:Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath |
| dbp:battles |
dbr:Peninsular_War dbr:French_Revolutionary_Wars dbr:War_of_1812 |
| dbp:before |
dbr:Hussey_Vivian,_1st_Baron_Vivian |
| dbp:birthDate |
1778-03-26 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:birthPlace |
dbr:England dbr:Newcastle_upon_Tyne |
| dbp:branch |
23 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:caption |
Sir Edward Blakeney (en) |
| dbp:commands |
dbr:Commander-in-Chief,_Ireland |
| dbp:deathDate |
1868-08-02 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:deathPlace |
dbr:England dbr:London dbr:Chelsea,_London |
| dbp:laterwork |
Governor of Royal Hospital Chelsea (en) |
| dbp:name |
Sir Edward Blakeney (en) |
| dbp:rank |
dbr:Field_marshal_(United_Kingdom) |
| dbp:serviceyears |
1794 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:title |
dbr:Commander-in-Chief,_Ireland dbr:Royal_Hospital_Chelsea Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade (en) Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot (en) Colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate |
dbt:Authority_control dbt:Cite_book dbt:Flagicon dbt:For dbt:Reflist dbt:S-aft dbt:S-bef dbt:S-end dbt:S-start dbt:S-ttl dbt:Short_description dbt:Succession_box dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Postnominals dbt:Infobox_military_person dbt:S-hon dbt:S-mil |
| dbp:years |
1832 (xsd:integer) 1836 (xsd:integer) 1854 (xsd:integer) 1856 (xsd:integer) 1865 (xsd:integer) |
| dct:subject |
dbc:Recipients_of_the_Army_Gold_Cross dbc:18th-century_Irish_people dbc:British_Army_personnel_of_the_Napoleonic_Wars dbc:Military_personnel_from_Newcastle_upon_Tyne dbc:1778_births dbc:1868_deaths dbc:19th-century_Irish_people dbc:Knights_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath dbc:Members_of_the_Privy_Council_of_Ireland dbc:8th_King's_Royal_Irish_Hussars_officers dbc:People_from_County_Galway dbc:British_Army_personnel_of_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars dbc:British_field_marshals dbc:Burials_in_England dbc:Commanders-in-Chief,_Ireland |
| gold:hypernym |
dbr:Officer |
| schema:sameAs |
http://viaf.org/viaf/315945107 |
| rdf:type |
owl:Thing foaf:Person dbo:Person dul:NaturalPerson wikidata:Q19088 wikidata:Q215627 wikidata:Q5 wikidata:Q729 yago:WikicatBritishFieldMarshals dbo:Animal dbo:Eukaryote dbo:Species schema:Person yago:WikicatPeopleFromCountyGalway yago:WikicatPeopleFromNewcastleUponTyne dbo:MilitaryPerson yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:CommissionedMilitaryOfficer109943239 yago:CommissionedOfficer109942970 yago:FieldMarshal110086821 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Marshal110296176 yago:MilitaryOfficer110317007 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Worker109632518 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Serviceman110582746 yago:SkilledWorker110605985 yago:Whole100003553 yago:Wikicat18th-centuryIrishPeople yago:Wikicat19th-centuryIrishPeople yago:Wikicat8thKing'sRoyalIrishHussarsOfficers |
| rdfs:comment |
Field Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney GCB GCH PC (Ire) (26 March 1778 – 2 August 1868) was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer with the expedition to Dutch Guiana and being taken prisoner by privateers three times suffering great hardship, he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. He also joined the expedition to Denmark led by Lord Cathcart in 1807. He went on to command the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment of Foot and then both battalions of that regiment at many of the battles of the Peninsular War. After joining the Duke of Wellington as he marched into Paris in 1815, Blakeney fought in the War of 1812. He then commanded a brigade in the army sent on a mission to Portugal to support the constitutional government against the absolutist forces of D (en) Edward Blakeney (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1778 – Londra, 2 agosto 1868) è stato un generale britannico. Blakeney nacque a Newcastle upon Tyne, quarto figlio del colonnello William, membro del Parlamento irlandese, e di sua moglie Costanza Brudenell, figlia di James Brudenell, V conte di Cardigan. Apparteneva ad una famiglia della piccola gentry di campagna anglo-britannica di origini gallesi. Nel 1794 entrò nell'esercito britannico come alfiere nell'8th Light Dragoons. (it) |
| rdfs:label |
Edward Blakeney (en) Edward Blakeney (it) |
| owl:sameAs |
freebase:Edward Blakeney http://viaf.org/viaf/315945107 yago-res:Edward Blakeney http://d-nb.info/gnd/124390495X wikidata:Edward Blakeney http://arz.dbpedia.org/resource/ادوارد_بلاكينى dbpedia-fa:Edward Blakeney dbpedia-it:Edward Blakeney https://global.dbpedia.org/id/3RrJX |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom |
wikipedia-en:Edward_Blakeney?oldid=1121058798&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction |
wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Bataille_de_la_Nivelle.jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Edwardblakeney.png |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf |
wikipedia-en:Edward_Blakeney |
| foaf:name |
Sir Edward Blakeney (en) |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of |
dbr:Sir_Edward_Blakeney |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of |
dbr:Royal_Fusiliers dbr:Royal_Scots dbr:Battle_of_New_Orleans dbr:Hussey_Vivian,_1st_Baron_Vivian dbr:List_of_British_generals_and_brigadiers dbr:John_Blakeney_(died_1789) dbr:1778 dbr:Colin_Halkett dbr:George_Bell_(British_Army_officer) dbr:George_Brown_(British_Army_officer) dbr:Blakeney_(surname) dbr:Lacy_Walter_Giles_Yea dbr:Lords_Justices_of_Ireland dbr:Commander-in-Chief,_Ireland dbr:John_O'Keeffe_(painter) dbr:Richmond_House,_Twickenham dbr:Alexander_George_Woodford dbr:Alured_Clarke dbr:Field_marshal_(United_Kingdom) dbr:Christopher_Moore_(sculptor) dbr:Royal_Hospital_Chelsea dbr:List_of_Knights_Grand_Cross_of_the_Royal_Guelphic_Order dbr:List_of_Privy_Counsellors_of_Ireland dbr:James_Kempt dbr:John_Colborne,_1st_Baron_Seaton dbr:William_Blakeney_(died_1804) dbr:General_Blakeney_(disambiguation) dbr:Robert_Bruce_(British_Army_officer,_born_1813) dbr:William_Siborne dbr:Sir_Edward_Blakeney |
| is dbp:after of |
dbr:Hussey_Vivian,_1st_Baron_Vivian dbr:Alured_Clarke |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of |
wikipedia-en:Edward_Blakeney |
