Battle Honours of the British Army (1911)

Battle Honours of the British Army (1911)
Author: C. B. Norman
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781507317
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A classic book, which gives details of army battle honours from Tangiers, 1662, to the Boer War. It recalls the glories of regiments now long gone, of famous battles like Blenheim, Mysore, Corunna, Sevastopol and Khartoum. Each section contains brief accounts of every major engagement of the campaign concerned, with tables showing the casualties - officers and men - killed and wounded. The whole work is supplemented with full indexes, as well as maps and illustrations. This is a volume which will be of continuing value to military historians and enthusiasts everywhere.

Battle Honours of the British Army

Battle Honours of the British Army
Author: Charles Boswell Norman
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN:
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In 'Battle Honours of the British Army' by Charles Boswell Norman, readers are taken on a comprehensive journey through the various battle honours earned by the British Army throughout its history. Through meticulous research and detailed accounts, the book provides a scholarly examination of the military achievements and historical significance of these honours. Norman's writing style is both informative and engaging, making this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in military history and traditions. This work is a testament to the bravery and sacrifices made by British soldiers on the battlefield, offering a deeper understanding of the importance of these honours within the context of British military history. Charles Boswell Norman, a noted military historian and author, brings his expertise and passion for military history to 'Battle Honours of the British Army'. His dedication to preserving and sharing the stories of the British Army's accomplishments is evident in the meticulous research and attention to detail found in this book. For readers interested in delving into the rich history of the British Army and gaining a deeper appreciation for its achievements, 'Battle Honours of the British Army' is a must-read. Norman's extensive knowledge and engaging writing style make this book an essential addition to any military history enthusiast's collection.

Battle Honours of the British Army

Battle Honours of the British Army
Author: C. B. Norman
Publisher: anboco
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3736408714
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From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII. London Maida, July 4, 1806. Mediterranean. Mediterranean, 1901-02. The War of the Spanish Succession. Blenheim, August 2, 1704. Ramillies, May 12, 1706. Oudenarde, June 30, 1708. Malplaquet, September 11, 1709. Dettingen, June 27, 1743. Minden, August 1, 1759. Emsdorff, July 16, 1760. Warburg, July 31, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, June 24, 1762. Louisburg, July 25, 1758. Quebec, September 12, 1759. Monte Video, 1807. Detroit Queenstown Miami Niagara Bladensburg, August 24, 1814. Arcot, August 31, 1751. Plassey, June 23, 1757. Condore, December 9, 1758. Masulipatam, April 8, 1759. Badara, November 25, 1759. Wandewash, January 22, 1760. Pondicherry, 1761, 1778, 1793. Buxar, October 23, 1764. Rohilcund, 1774. The Carnatic. Guzerat, 1778-1782. Sholinghur, September 27, 1781. Mangalore, 1783. Mysore. Nundy Droog, October 19, 1791. Rohilcund, 1794. Seedaseer, March 6, 1799. Seringapatam, May 4, 1799. Lincelles, August 18, 1793. Nieuport, October, 1793. Villers-en-Couches, April 24, 1794. Beaumont, April 26, 1794. Willems, May 10, 1794. Tournay, May 22, 1794. Egmont-op-Zee, October 2, 1799. Guadeloupe, 1759. Martinique, 1762. Havana. St. Lucia, 1778. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. St. Lucia, 1796. Surinam, 1804. Dominica, 1805. Martinique, 1809. Guadeloupe, 1810. Egypt (with the Sphinx). Mandora, March 13, 1802. Marabout, August 17, 1802. Egypt, 1882. Tel-el-Kebir, September 12, 1882. Nile, 1884-85. Abu Klea, January 28, 1885. Kirbekan, February 10, 1885. Suakin, 1885.[11] Tofrek, March 22, 1885. Hafir. Atbara, April 8, 1898. Khartoum, 1898. Ally-Ghur, September 3, 1803. Delhi, September 11, 1803. Assaye, September 23, 1803. Laswarree, November 1, 1803. Deig, November 13 to December 23, 1804. Cochin, 1809. Roleia, August 17, 1808. Vimiera, August 21, 1808. Sahagun, December 21, 1808. Corunna, January 16, 1809. Douro. Busaco, September 27, 1810. Barrosa, March 4, 1811. Fuentes d'Onor, May 5, 1811. Albuera, May 16, 1811. Almaraz, May 19, 1811. Arroyos dos Molinos, October 28, 1811. Tarifa, December, 1811. Ciudad Rodrigo, January, 1812. Badajoz, March and April, 1812. Salamanca, July 22, 1812. Vittoria, June 21, 1813. Pyrenees, July 28 to August 2, 1813. San Sebastian, August, 1813. Nivelle, November 10, 1813. Nive, December 9 to 13, 1813. Orthes, February 27, 1814. Toulouse, April 10, 1814. Peninsula, 1808-1814. Waterloo, June 18, 1815. The Order of the Bath. Kirkee, November 5, 1817. Seetabuldee, November 26, 1817. Nagpore, December 16, 1817. Maheidpore, December 23, 1817. Corygaum, January 1, 1818. Nowah, January 21, 1819. Medal for the Second Mahratta War. Bhurtpore, January, 1826. Hindoostan. India. Amboyna, 1796 and 1810. Ternate, 1801 and 1810. Banda, 1796 and 1810. Arabia, 1809. Bourbon, July 8, 1810.[18] Java, 1811. Persian Gulf, 1819. Beni Boo Alli, March, 1821. Aden, 1839. Persia, 1856-57. Bushire, December 5, 1856. Reshire, December 7, 1856. Koosh-ab, February 8, 1857. Ava, 1824-1826. Kemmendine, November 30 to December 9, 1824. Arracan, 1825. Pegu. Burmah, 1885-1887. Afghanistan. Ghuznee, 1839. Khelat, November 13, 1839. Kahun, 1840. Jelalabad. Khelat-i-Ghilzai. Cutchee, 1839-1842.[22] Scinde, 1843. Meeanee, February 17, 1843. Hyderabad, March 24, 1843. Maharajpore and Punniar, December 29, 1843. Moodkee, December 18, 1845. Ferozeshah, December 21, 1845. Aliwal, January 28, 1868. Sobraon, February 10, 1846. Punjaub. Chillianwallah, January 13, 1849. Mooltan, January, 1849. Goojerat, February 21, 1849. Alma, September 20, 1854. Inkerman, November 5, 1854. Sevastopol. The Victoria Cross. Delhi, May to September, 1857. Lucknow. Relief of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell, November, 1857. Siege and Capture of Lucknow. Central India, 1857 ...

The British Army Against Napoleon

The British Army Against Napoleon
Author: Bob Burnham
Publisher: Frontline Books
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2010-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1848325622
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Despite the bewildering number of tomes devoted to the Napoleonic wars, much basic data as been hitherto unavailable to anyone other than the most ardent scholars. McGuigan and Burnham have collected a tremendous treasure trove of information in a readily accessible form. Other books may tell you how many regiments were sent on the expedition to Hanover in 1805, but The British Army against Napoleon will tell you where every single regiment in the British army was stationed, who were their honorary colonels, and give you a list of all the barracks in Britain with the number of men they were designed to hold. Where else will you find not just the pay of different ranked officers but the amount of income tax they paid, as well as all the other deductions and stoppages that reduced their actual receipts to a fraction of their nominal (and generally quite low) pay? Or pension charts for widows? There are tables that list all the recipients of the honours and awards issued, casualties in action and disease, seniority of officers of the numerous expeditions and campaigns (a matter not just of curiosity but of major significance, for the date of rank of an officer determined who commanded the force and all of its sub-units.) The material in these tables has been collected from countless primary sources and official publications such as the Army List, London Gazette, Wellington s Dispatches, regimental histories, artillery manuals, and handbooks.

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges [3 volumes]

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges [3 volumes]
Author: Tony Jaques
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1428
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313027994
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Lead Reviewer: Dr. Daniel Coetzee, Independent Scholar, London, UK Review Board: Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK Dr. Frances F. Berdan, Professor of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino David A. Graff, Associate Professor, Department of History, Kansas State University Dr. Kevin Jones, University College London Dr. John Laband, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Dr. Carter Malkasian, Center for Naval Analysis Mr. Toby McLeod, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Tim Moreman, Independent Scholar, London, UK Professor Bill Nasson, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa Dr. David Nicolle, Honourary Research Fellow, Nottingham University, UK Dr. Kaushik Roy, Lecturer, Department of History, Presidency College, Kolkata, India Dennis Showalter, Professor of History, Colorado College Dr. Stephen Turnbull, Lecturer in Japanese Religious Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Leeds University, UK Professor Michael Whitby, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, UK Over 8,500 battles and sieges are covered-easily the most exhaustive reference source on this basic aspect of military history. Thoroughly vetted by an expert board of period and regional experts, this dictionary offers easy to find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from practically every era and place of human history. In addition to exhaustive coverage of World War II, World War I, the American Civil War, medieval wars, and conflicts during the classical era, this dictionary covers battles fought in pre-modern Africa, the Middle East, Ancient and Medieval India, China, and Japan, and early meso-American warfare as well. Going well beyond the typical greatest or most influential battle format, The Dictionary of Battles and Sieges offers readers information they would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. Entries were reviewed by area and period experts to ensure accuracy and to provide the broadest coverage possible. Jaques's Dictionary is truly global in scope, covering East Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, Mesoamerica, and North and South America. Battles from wars great and small are in the dictionary, including battles from this very brief sampling of wars covered, listed to give an idea of the book's deep coverage: Egyptian-Syrian Wars (1468 BC); the Assyrian Wars (724 - 648 BC); Greco-Persian Wars (498 - 450 BC); the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335-326 BC); Rome's Gallic Wars (121-52 BC); Han Imperial Wars (208); Hun-Ostrogoth Wars (454-68); Sino-Vietnamese Wars (547-605); Mecca-Medina War (624-30); Jinshin War (672); Berber Rebellion (740-61); Viking Raids on, and in, Britain (793-954); Sino-Annamese War (938); Byzantine Military Rebellions (978-89); Afghan Wars of Succession (998-1041); Russian Dynastic Wars (1016-94); Reconquista (1063-1492); Crusader-Muslim Wars (1100- 1179); Swedish Wars of Succession (1160-1210); Conquests of Genghis Khan (1202-27); William Wallace Revolt (1297-1304); Hundred Years War (1337-1453); War of Chioggia (1378-80); Vijayanagar-Bahmani Wars (1367-1406); Ottoman Civil Wars (1413-81); Mongol-Uzbek Wars (1497-1512); German Knights' War (1523); Burmese-Laotian Wars (1574); Cambodian-Spanish War (1599); King Philip's War (1675-77); Franco-Barbary Wars (1728); Bengal War (1763-65); French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1801); Chilean War of Independence (1813-26); Boer-Zulu War (1838); Indian Mutiny (1858-59); Mexican-French War (1862-67); Sino-Japanese War (1894-95); World War I (1914-18); Anhwei-Chihli War (1920); World War II (1939-45) Mau Mau Revolt (1955); 2nd Indo-Pakistani War (1965); Angolan War (1987-88); 2nd Gulf War (2003- ).

The History of the Green Howards

The History of the Green Howards
Author: Geoffrey Powell
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473858003
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Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 in response to a call for loyal troops, the Green Howards have maintained their tradition of loyalty over the past 300 years winning many superb battle honours. Their history reflects that of the British Army as there is hardly a major campaign that this Regiment has not been involved in; the French Wars of 1697-1793, the American War of Independence, Crimean War, First and Second World Wars, service in Suez, Malaya, Northern Ireland, peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and the war in the Gulf. This fine book brings the story of one of Britain's finest regiments right up to date.

British Military Medals

British Military Medals
Author: Peter Duckers
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473829836
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Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals. This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. His work is a guide for collectors and for local and family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units and the experiences of individuals who served in them.

Britons and their Battlefields

Britons and their Battlefields
Author: Ian Atherton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2024-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198912870
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While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved from much longer practices. From the fourteenth century to the present day, this work analyses the changing commemoration and memories of British battlefields at home and overseas, from Bannockburn (1314) to Bosworth (1485) to Basra (1914-1921). Across these seven centuries, there have been a series of recurring post-battle rituals that have shaped and continue to shape memories of conflict. Three distinct but overlapping periods of memory can be delineated: In the later Middle Ages battlefields were consecrated by the burial of the fallen and often by the erection of a battlefield cross, or chapel or chantry to pray for the dead. The second phase began with the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s, when pilgrimage and prayers for the dead was abolished, and battlefield chantries were dissolved and many battlefield crosses were demolished. Memories shifted from the dead to the living, especially the bodies of surviving veterans who commemorated the conflict by their wounds, and from soil and stone to print and ink. The third phase began in the eighteenth century when antiquaries and others established new monuments on past battlefields. Monuments to survivors and the dead were established on contemporary battlefields such as Waterloo, once again hailed as sacred ground hallowed by bloodshed, fit destinations for a pilgrimage. Not just officers but ordinary soldiers began to be memorialized by name on the battlefield, culminating in the cult of the names of the dead enshrined by the creation of the War Graves Commission in 1917, and the idea that battlefields should be preserved unchanged as seen in modern heritage management. Drawing on a wide variety of literary and historical sources and taking a uniquely longue durée approach, the book explores and links memory-making practices from across the period to reconsider the ways in which battlefields are commemorated and re-commemorated. In so doing, it makes a unique contribution to a wide range of historiographical fields: British history since the fourteenth century, memory studies, heritage studies, landscape history, conflict archaeology, and military history.