Brent Spencer fought at Vimeiro and testified in Wellesley's favour at the inquiry following the Convention of Cintra.
14 Facts About Brent Spencer
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Brent Spencer led a division at Bussaco and two divisions at Fuentes de Onoro.
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Wellesley, now Lord Wellington, was not satisfied that Spencer was up to the responsibilities of second-in-command and he was replaced by Thomas Graham.
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Brent Spencer was the Member of Parliament for Sligo Borough from 1815 to 1818.
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Brent Spencer was born circa 1760, the second son of Conway Brent Spencer of Tremary and his wife, Mary.
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Brent Spencer's brother was politician Joshua Spencer, and their nephew was politician George Canning II.
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In 1801, Brent Spencer served with General Sir Ralph Abercromby's army in Egypt at the Battle of Alexandria.
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Brent Spencer fought in the Copenhagen campaign in late 1807.
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At the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808, Brent Spencer was Wellesley's second-in-command.
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Brent Spencer was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath on 26 April 1809.
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Brent Spencer left Spencer and 28,000 Anglo-Portuguese to defend the province of Beira in the north.
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Brent Spencer would talk of the Thames for the Tagus.
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Brent Spencer met Princess Augusta Sophia, the second daughter of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, about 1800, and a romantic friendship had developed by about 1803.
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In 1805, Brent Spencer was appointed as an equerry to the king.