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920:) described him less diplomatically as "a stupid, arrogant, quick-tempered man". Ian Beckett describes him as "while often genial ... also inclined to be pompous, and liable to angry rambling. He was the wrong man in the wrong place as the Irish home rule crisis deepened ... It is important to emphasize that no direct orders of any kind were disobeyed, exacerbating Paget's error in offering a choice whether to obey orders in the event that they were issued".
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Saturday 21 March Fergusson toured units, assuring them of his own unionist sympathies but urging them to do their duty – this action
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had actually (on 19 March) agreed that officers with "direct family connections" to Ulster should be left behind). In effectively offering his officers an ultimatum, Paget was acting foolishly, as the majority would probably have obeyed if simply ordered north. Paget is reported to have ended the
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warning that "evil-disposed persons" might attempt to seize weapons. Paget reported that he was drawing up plans to protect arms depots as ordered, but warning that large-scale troop movements would exacerbate the situation. Ian
Beckett describes his response as "tentative". Paget was summoned to
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later learned from an interview with Seely (21 March) that Paget had been acting without authority in talking of "active operations" and in giving officers a chance to discuss hypothetical orders and attempt to resign. This news helped persuade Hubert Gough to remain in the Army, albeit with a
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meeting by ordering his officers to speak to their subordinates and then report back. Gough did not attend the second meeting in the afternoon, at which Paget confirmed that the purpose of the move was to overawe Ulster rather than fight, but at which he claimed that the orders had the King's
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American heiress Mary "Minnie" Fiske Stevens (1853–1919) daughter of Massachusetts hotel proprietors Paran Stevens and Marietta Reed. She was a major beneficiary of her father's estate, which was the subject of thirty years' litigation after his death in 1872.
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on 12 June 1869 – the double rank was because Guards officers at that time held higher substantive rank in the army than in the regiment. He was promoted lieutenant and captain on 29 July 1872 and was selected for special service on Sir
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and Paget would 'command armies under him'. In 1911, when he "commanded" one of the forces on the Annual
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sanction. The King was later displeased when it became known that Paget had used his name in this way, and was unconvinced when Paget tried to blame
Fergusson (who accepted the blame).
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on 4 April 1908. In that post in 1909 he seldom visited his office, preferring "other activities". In 1910 he was appointed a special ambassador to carry the news of King
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that the troop movements were to be completed by dawn on Sunday 31 March. Another, hurried, meeting was held on the night of 19 March after Sir
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had a good effect. Paget did the same but his speech was described by one colonel as "absolutely unconvincing and inconclusive".
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507:Third Anglo-Burmese War
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1595:. Allen & Unwin.
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106:Sir Neville Lyttelton
72:Gen. Sir Arthur Paget
1251:Holmes 2004, p179-80
914:Victor Bonham-Carter
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1469:. Delphi Classics.
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1187:"From our archives"
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850:Grand Duke Nicholas
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1591:The Killing Ground
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1193:. 27 August 1912.
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