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Edward Blakeney
Field Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney (26 March 1778 – 2 August 1868) was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer with the expedition to Dutch Guiana and being taken prisoner by privateers three times suffering great hardship, he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. He also joined the expedition to Denmark led by Lord Cathcart in 1807. He went on to command the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment of Foot and then both battalions of that regiment at many of the battles of the Peninsular War. After joining the Duke of Wellington as he marched into Paris in 1815, Blakeney fought in the War of 1812. He then commanded a brigade in the army sent on a mission to Portugal to support the constitutional government against the absolutist forces of Dom Miguel in 1826. His last major appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, a post he held for nearly twenty years.
==Early life==
Born the fourth son of Colonel William Blakeney and Sarah Blakeney (née Shields), Blakeney was commissioned as a cornet in the 8th Light Dragoons on 28 February 1794. He was promoted to lieutenant in the 121st Regiment of Foot on 4 September 1794 and to captain in the 99th Regiment of Foot on 24 December 1794.〔Heathcote, p. 46〕 He took part in the expedition to Dutch Guiana in 1796 and was taken prisoner by privateers three times suffering great hardship.〔 He also took part in the evacuation of Santo Domingo in 1798.〔Dod, pp. 120–121〕
Blakeney transferred to the 17th Regiment of Foot on 10 March 1798 and saw action at the Battle of Krabbendam and the Battle of Bergen both in September 1799 and the Battle of Alkmaar and the Battle of Castricum both in October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.〔 Promoted to major on 17 September 1801, he transferred to the 47th Regiment of Foot on 11 July 1803. After transferring again, this time to the 7th Regiment of Foot on 7 April 1804, he joined the expedition to Denmark led by Lord Cathcart, took part in the Battle of Copenhagen in August 1807 and, having been promoted to lieutenant colonel on 7 May 1808, also took part in the capture of Martinique in February 1809.〔 He undertook garrison duty in Nova Scotia later that year.〔Heathcote, p. 47〕
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