Ordered to Egypt to reinforce Abercromby (qv), he won renown by leading a brigade on a gruelling fourteen-day march across the desert from Kosseir to the Nile, and then commanded the brigade in Egypt (1801–3). He returned to England in 1796, was promoted colonel (1800), and was sent to India with the 88th, arriving in Bombay 10 June 1800. He then became lieutenant-colonel of the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) (1 September 1795–9 February 1807), which he commanded in the West Indies in 1795, where he helped take Grenada and St Lucia. Returning to England in August 1794, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 124th or Waterford Foot (a regiment raised by his father) 11 August 1794. Hood was forced to retreat to Corsica, where Beresford distinguished himself during the storming of the tower at Cape Mortella in February 1794. In August 1793, as a major with the 69th Foot, he participated in Adm. While serving in Nova Scotia, he lost an eye in a shooting accident. 2 October 1844) the identity of their mother is uncertain, but it may have been Elizabeth Monck of Charleville, whom Tyrone married 18 April 1769.Īfter education at York and military school in Strasbourg, William was commissioned ensign in the 6th Foot (27 August 1785). Waterford (1757–60) and Coleraine (1761–3), and governor of Co. Waterford, illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford (1734/5–1800), 2nd earl of Tyrone (1763–89), 1st marquess of Waterford (cr.
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