Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, ( 1833– 1913)

Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, ( 1833– 1913)

Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, (4 June 1833–25 March 1913), was a British army officer. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa—including his brilliantly executed Ashanti campaign (1873–1874) and the Nile Expedition against Mahdist Sudan in 1884-85. His reputation for efficiency led to the late 19th-century English phrase “everything’s all Sir Garnet”, meaning “all is in order.”

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