For his son, the engineer and Army officer, see Charles Pasley (engineer).
Sir Charles Pasley
General Sir Charles William PasleyKCB FRS (8 September 1780 – 19 April 1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American Revolution British Empire: An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire, published in 1810. This text changed how Britons thought their empire should relate to the rest of the world. He warned that Britain could not keep its Empire by its "splendid isolation". Britain would need to fight to gain its empire, and by using the colonies as a resource for soldiers and sailors it grew by an average of 100,000 square miles (260,000 km2) per year between the Battle of Waterloo and the American Civil War. Serving in the Royal Engineers in the Napoleonic Wars, he was Europe's leading demolitions expert and siege warfare specialist.
General Sir Charles William Pasley KCB FRS (8 September 1780 – 19 April 1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on...
Pasley may refer to: People CharlesPasley KCB (1780–1861), British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American...
underwater obstacles, both for military and civilian purposes. In 1839 CharlesPasley, at the time a colonel of the Royal Engineers, started operations to...
Company for the colony of Victoria, Australia, under the supervision of CharlesPasley, Cerberus was completed in 1870, and arrived in Port Phillip, the port...
system of Home Riggs Popham used on land, and its later improvement by CharlesPasley. The land system consisted of lines of fixed stations (substantial buildings)...
Coehoorn Pierre Charles L'Enfant Giovanni Fontana Leslie Groves Cyril Gordon Martin Coulson Norman Mitchell John Rosworm CharlesPasley Vauban Marc René...
equipment replaced with another two-arm system invented by CharlesPasley. Each of the arms of Pasley's system could take on one of eight positions and it thus...
lightweight and could be quickly turned into a floating bridge. Lt Col CharlesPasley of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham England developed...
explosive. The first to use this method for underwater blasting was CharlesPasley who employed it in 1839 to break up the wreck of the British warship...
tunnel was inspected by the inspector-general of railways, Major-General CharlesPasley, on behalf of the Board of Trade. The tunnel was 244 metres (267 yd)...
government forces were under the overall command of Lieutenant Governor Charles Hotham and Ballarat's resident gold commissioner, Robert Rede. The strength...
publication now in the public domain: Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1895). "Pasley, Charles (1824–1890)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography...
the Corps of Royal Military Artificers, Sappers and Miners. Captain CharlesPasley who had been pressing for such an establishment since 1809 was selected...
inspected and approved for the Board of Trade by Major-General CharlesPasley. Pasley had invented a system of optical telegraphy through semaphores in...
local traffic after approval by the first Railway Inspector, General CharlesPasley. However, on 24 May 1847, a local train to Ruabon fell through the bridge...
cerebral circulation and surmised that this was the cause of death. 1840: CharlesPasley, who was involved in the recovery of the sunken warship HMS Royal George...
Engineer skills. The RSME was founded by Major (later General Sir) CharlesPasley, as the Royal Engineer Establishment in 1812. It was renamed the School...
holder's son, Henry Malcolm Sabine Pasley (born 2009). www.burkespeerage.com Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage; Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors);...
Major-General Sir Harold Parsons General Sir Robert Pascoe General Sir CharlesPasley Brigadier Michael John Paterson CBE, Army Catering Corps Major-General...
Great Britain, in 1843 the Board of Trade (with the advice of engineers CharlesPasley and George Stephenson) introduced the gauge as a compromise. The Railway...
cannons. Following on from this success, Colonel of the Royal Engineers CharlesPasley commenced the first large scale salvage operation in 1839. His plan...
twice married: first, in 1808, to his cousin Magdalene, daughter of CharlesPasley, his mother's brother; and secondly, in 1829, to Elmira Riddell, youngest...
of the same year. He trained at Chatham where he studied under Sir CharlesPasley before reaching India in May 1829. He assisted Captain Hutchinson in...
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