The Making Of The British Army (108 page)

Transvaal
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

Trelawny, Col. Charles (4th Foot)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

trench warfare
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Triple Entente
(i)

‘Trooping the Colour’ (Queen’s Birthday Parade)
(i)

Truman, Harry S. (US President)
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Turenne, Marshal le vicomte de
(i)

Turkey, First World War
(i)

Tuzo, Lt-Gen. Sir Harry (GOC Northern Ireland)
(i)

Ulm, battle (1805)
(i)

Ulster, Protestant objections to home rule
(i)

Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
(i)

Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
(i)

First World War
(i)
&
n

internment and
(i)

Ultra
(i)
&
n

Ulundi, battle (1879)
(i)

uniforms

amalgamated brigades
(i)

‘bishop’s mitre’ hats
(i)

fusilier regiments
(i)
n

khaki
(i)
,
(ii)

New Model Army
(i)

United Nations, peacekeeping operations
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

United Nations Security Council

intervention in Korea
(i)

US-led coalition for Kuwait
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United States

alliances with France, Spain and Holland
(i)

fund-raisers for IRA
(i)

Korean intervention
(i)

Pearl Harbor and Second World War
(i)

United States army

11th Virginia Regt
(i)
,
(ii)

Afghanistan
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

constitutional purpose
(i)

doctrine of overwhelming force
(i)

First World War
(i)

friction with British in Iraq
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influence on British army
(i)

insurgents (Iraq), response to
(i)

in Iraq
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

in Korea (1950–)
(i)

in NATO
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Omaha beach
(i)

operations with British (21st century)
(i)

Second World War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Tank Corps (after First World War)
(i)

Vietnam (1959–75)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

United States Army Air Force (USAAF), Normandy campaign (1944)
(i)
,
(ii)

United States army units

3rd Army
(i)

101st Airborne Division
(i)

UNPROFOR, Bosnia
(i)
,
(ii)

Urquhart, Maj.-Gen. Roy (1st Airborne)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

Utrecht, Peace of (1713)
66
,
(i)

Utrecht, Treaty of (1714)
(i)

Uxbridge, marquess of
see
Paget

Vaal Krantz, battle (1900)
(i)

Valladolid
(i)
,
(ii)

van der Bijl, Nicholas,
5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands
(with D. Aldea)
(i)
n
,
(ii)
n

Vanbrugh, Sir John
(i)
,
(ii)

Vegetius
(i)

Verdun, German offensive (1916)
(i)
,
(ii)

Verney, Sir Edmund
(i)

Versailles, treaty conference (1919)
(i)

Victor, Claude Victor-Perrin, Marshal
(i)

Victoria, Queen

and General Gordon
(i)

interest in army matters
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Victory
, HMS
(i)
n

Vienna, Congress of (1815)
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,
(ii)

Vietnam War (1959–75)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

effect on US thinking
(i)

Villeroi, François de Neufville, duc de, Marshal
(i)

Vimeiro, battle (1808)
(i)
,
(ii)

Vivian, Brig.-Gen. Sir Hussey
(i)

Voltaire
(i)
,
(ii)

Wade, Gen. George
(i)

Waldeck, Gen. George Frederick, Prince of
(i)

Walker, Sir Edward
(i)

Walker, Gen. Sir Michael (CDS), on military technology
(i)

Walker, Maj.-Gen. Walter
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

Walpole, Sir Robert
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

War of 1812
(i)
n
,
(ii)

War of Austrian Succession (1740–8)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739–42)
(i)
,
(ii)

War Office
(i)

administrative reorganization
(i)

War Office (Reconstitution) Committee (1904)
(i)
n

War of Spanish Succession (1701–13)
(i)

see also
Spain

‘War on Terror’
(i)

Warburg, battle (1760)
(i)

warfare

asymmetric
(i)
,
(ii)

future of state-on-state
(i)

jungle (Malaya)
(i)

low-tech versus high-tech
(i)

mechanized
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)
n

pre-emptive (Bush doctrine)
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

trench
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

‘war among the people’ (Smith)
(i)
,
(ii)

Warren, Lt-Gen. Sir Charles
(i)

Warrenpoint, ambush (1979)
(i)

Washington, George
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Waterloo, battle (1815)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

geography of
(i)
&
n

King’s German Legion
(i)

Waters, Gen. Sir John
(i)
&
n

Waugh, Evelyn,
Sword of Honour
(i)

Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

weapons

Civil War period
(i)
,
(ii)

Highland broadsword (claymore)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Marlborough’s army
(i)
,
(ii)

spontoons and halberds
(i)
&
n

see also
artillery; firearms

weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Iraq and
(i)

websites
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wellesley, Sir Arthur
see
Wellington

Wellesley, Richard,
(i)
st marquess
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley, duke of
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
&
n
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)

command style, faults and qualities
(i)

comment by Victor Hugo
(i)

harness of rope analogy
(i)

in India
(i)
,
(ii)

legacy of
(i)

Lines of Torres Vedras
(i)
,
(ii)
n

and Marlborough
(i)

Master General of the Ordnance
(i)

Peninsular War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

reactionary views
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

recruits, opinion of
(i)

tactics
(i)

Waterloo
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Welsh regiments, camp-followers at Naseby (1645)
(i)

Wentworth, Lord Wentworth’s Regt (
later
the Grenadier Guards)
(i)
&
n

West Africa, Ashanti wars
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,
(ii)
n