Long family of Wiltshire: Robert Ballard Long, Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, Richard Penruddocke Long, Dudley Long North, Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet, Robert Long, Richard Godolphin Long, Edward Long, Anne Long

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Robert Ballard Long, Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, Richard Penruddocke Long, Dudley Long North, Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet, Robert Long, Richard Godolphin Long, Edward Long, Anne Long, Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet, Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough, Richard Long, Sir Robert Long, 1st Baronet, William Long, Sir James Long, 5th Baronet, South Wraxall Manor, Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, Lislebone Long, Charles Edward Long, Richard Long, 3rd Viscount Long, Henry Long, Rood Ashton House, Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long, Sir Robert Long, 6th Baronet, Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough, Charlotte Long, Thomas Long of Draycot, Gifford Long, Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, 3rd Baronet, Sir Walter Long, 2nd Baronet, Beeston Long, Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough, Samuel Long, Long Baronets, John Long. Excerpt: Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long (4 April 1771 ¿ 2 March 1825) was an officer of the British and Hanoverian Armies who despite extensive service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars never managed to achieve high command due to his abrasive manner with his superiors and his alleged tactical ineptitude. Although he remained a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War between 1809 and 1814, the British commander Wellington became disillusioned with Long's abilities. Wellington's opinion was never expressed directly, though when the Prince Regent manoeuvred his favourite, Colquhoun Grant into replacing Long as a cavalry brigade commander, Wellington conspicuously made no effort to retain Long. Other senior officers, including Sir William Beresford and the Duke of Cumberland, expressed their dissatisfaction with Long's abilities. The celebrated historian, and Peninsula veteran, Sir William Napier was a severe critic of Beresford's record as army commander during the Albuera Campaign; in criticising Beresford he involved Long's opinions as part of his argument. The publication of Napier's history led to a long running and acrimonious argument in print between Beresford and his partisans on one side, with Napier and Long's nephew Charles Edward Long (Long having died before the controversy reached the public arena) on the other. Recently Long's performance as a cavalry general has received more favourable comment in Ian Fletcher's revisionist account of the British cavalry in the Napoleonic period. Long was born the elder of twin sons to Jamaican planter Edward Long and his wife Mary at Chichester in 1771. Long received a formal education, attending Dr Thomson's School in Kensington until age nine and then being sent to Harrow School until 18 in 1789. After three years at the University of Göttingen studying military theory, Long was commissioned into the 1st King's Dragoon Guards as a cornet in 1791. With the aid of his family's substantial financial re