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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET RAGLAN (1788-1855)  ,
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British field marshal, was the eighth and youngest son of Henry, 5th duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of
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Admiral the Hon .
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Edward Boscawen, and was born on the 3oth of September 1788 . His elder
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brother, General Lord (Robert) Edward (Henry) Somerset (1776—1842), distinguished himself as the leader of the Household Cavalry brigade at
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Waterloo . Lord Fitzroy Somerset was educated at Westminster school, and entered the army in 1804 . In 1807 he was attached to the Hon .
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Sir Arthur Paget's
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embassy to
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Turkey, and the same
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year he was selected to serve on the staff of Sir Arthur Wellesley in the expedition to Copenhagen . In the following year he accompanied the same general in a like capacity to
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Portugal, and during the whole of the
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Peninsular War was at his right hand, first as aide-de-camp and then as military secretary . He was wounded at Busaco, became brevet-major after Fuentes de Onoro, accompanied the stormers of the 52nd
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light
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infantry as a volunteer at
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Ciudad Rodrigo and specially distinguished himself at the storming of Badajoz, being the first to mount the breach, and afterwards showing
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great
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resolution and promptitude in securing one of the gates before the French could organize a fresh defence . During the short period of the Bourbon
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rule in 1814 and 1815 he was secretary to the
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English embassy at Paris . On the renewal of the war he again became aide-de-camp and military secretary to the duke of Wellington . About this time he married Emily Harriet, daughter of the 3rd
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earl of Mornington, and Welling-ton's niece . At Waterloo he was wounded in the right arm and had to undergo amputation, but he quickly learned to write with his
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left hand, and on the conclusion of the war resumed his duties as secretary to the embassy at Paris .

From 1818 to 182o, and again in 1826-29, he sat in the

House of
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Commons as member for Truro . In 1819 he was appointed secretary to the duke of Wellington as master-general of the ordnance, and from 1827 till the
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death of the duke in 1852 was military secretary to him as
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commander-in-chief . He was then appointed master-general of the ordnance, and was created Baron Raglan .

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