Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith

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British Army officer human

Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic and War of 1812 era, noted for his leadership of light infantry and service in several key campaigns in Europe and North America.

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Label	Occurrences
Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ
allegiance	United Kingdom ⓘ
awardReceived	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath NERFINISHED ⓘ
battle	Battle of Badajoz NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Busaco NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Corunna NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Salamanca NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Vimeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthDate	1772-08-16 ⓘ
birthPlace	Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	Napoleonic Wars ⓘ Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ War of 1812 ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
deathDate	1831-01-15 ⓘ
deathPlace	Mahabaleshwar NERFINISHED ⓘ
education	trained as a professional soldier in the British Army ⓘ
father	John Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ
honorificPrefix	Sir ⓘ
militaryBranch	British Army ⓘ Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) NERFINISHED ⓘ
militaryRank	brigadier general ⓘ
militaryUnitCommanded	1st Brigade of the Light Division NERFINISHED ⓘ light infantry brigade in the Peninsular War ⓘ
notableFor	development and use of rifle-armed light infantry tactics ⓘ leadership of light infantry ⓘ service in European campaigns ⓘ service in North American campaigns ⓘ
occupation	soldier ⓘ
participatedIn	British invasion of the Chesapeake NERFINISHED ⓘ operations in the War of 1812 in North America ⓘ
positionHeld	Adjutant-General in India NERFINISHED ⓘ colonel of the Rifle Brigade ⓘ
promotion	promoted to brigadier general for service in the Peninsular War ⓘ
servedIn	95th Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ Rifle Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ
sibling	Frederick Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ George Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Frederick Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ
theatreOfOperations	Iberian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ India NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ
title	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith
Description of subject: Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic and War of 1812 era, noted for his leadership of light infantry and service in several key campaigns in Europe and North America.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Craney Island → commander → Brigadier General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith ⓘ