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A general in the British Army and a marshal in the Portuguese army, who fought with the Duke Of Wellington in the Peninsular War and in 1828 held the office of master-general of the ordnance in Wellington's first ministry. He was captured at the first Buenos Aires Invasion , in 1806, after being defeated by the city defenders. The most notable action in which Beresford held independent command, during the Peninsular War, occurred in 1811 when a combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish army under his command as a Portuguese Field-marshal , intercepted a French army commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult who had been ordered by Marshal Auguste Marmont to move to protect Badajoz . After the bloody Battle Of Albuera the French were forced to retreat. REFERENCES
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