Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
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title:
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
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Field Marshal Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen,, was a British Army officer. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then in the expedition of Sir Charles Warren to Bechuanaland in the mid-1880s. He took a prominent role as General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in the Second Boer War. He suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Magersfontein, during which he failed to carry out adequate reconnaissance and accordingly his artillery bombarded the wrong place leading to
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19/20th-century British Army officer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Methuen,_3rd_Baron_Methuen
date created:
2005-07-08T17:24:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T02:58:24Z
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