Wolseley

American

[woolz-lee] / ˈwʊlz li /

noun

Garnet Joseph, 1st Viscount, 1833–1913, British field marshal.

Wolseley British

/ ˈwʊlzlɪ /

noun

Garnet Joseph, 1st Viscount. 1833–1913, British field marshal, noted for his army reforms

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Wolseley, he judges, never accepted that the logistical challenges incurred by his decision to follow the Nile had doomed his campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

At the Wolseley one evening Rickman passed a table at which Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan huddled.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

I'm standing on Wolseley Road, one of the main routes through Plymouth and it is currently closed in both directions around Henderson Place with traffic being diverted.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2021

The word Wolseley doesn’t pass his lips, because he knows that’s where it’ll be.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2016

Next day Captain Garnet Wolseley led a storming party against the Motee Mahal, and the self-sacrificing heroism of the Shah Nujeef was displayed again here and with the same result.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy

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