1. Lieutenant-General Sir William Warre, was an English officer of the British Army.
18 Facts About William Warre
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William Warre saw service in the Peninsular War and was colonel of the 94th Foot.
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William Warre is still operating as Warre's, and Sir William's portrait hangs in the city's famed Factory House.
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William Warre was educated at Harrow School, but apparently left early to return to Portugal and join the family business.
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The boy was placed in the office of his uncle, named William Warre, to learn the trade.
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William Warre was sent to Bonn to study with a private tutor.
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On 5 November 1803, William Warre was commissioned as an ensign in the 52nd Foot.
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William Warre purchased a promotion to lieutenant on 2 June 1804, followed by a commission on 25 April 1806 in the 98th Foot.
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William Warre attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst in the summer of 1807 and the following May was appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson.
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William Warre was sent to recover in Lisbon, where Major-General William Carr Beresford welcomed him into his house.
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When Beresford was appointed Commander in Chief of the Portuguese Army in March 1809, William Warre was appointed his first aide-de-camp and promoted to Major.
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William Warre rejoined Beresford in May 1811 after the Battle of Albuera, and took part in the Second Siege of Badajoz in May and June.
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William Warre was promoted to be brevet major in the British Army in 1811, and lieutenant-colonel in the Anglo-Portuguese Army on 3 July.
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William Warre was at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812, at the third siege and capture of Badajoz in April, and at the battle of Salamanca on 22 July, where Beresford was wounded.
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William Warre was sent back to Portugal, where he stayed until 1828, to support the Portuguese against Spain in the War of the Two Brothers.
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William Warre was a Commander of the Order of Aviz by the Portuguese.
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William Warre was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1838 Coronation Honours of Queen Victoria, and was knighted the following year.
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William Warre died in York in 1853 and was buried at Bishopthorpe.