The Making Of The British Army (92 page)

Arnhem, Operation Market Garden
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Arnold, US Gen. Benedict
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at Freeman’s farm
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Arras, British counter-attack (1940)
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Arrow
, HMS
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Arthur, Max,
Above All, Courage
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n

Articles of War
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artillery

all-arms cooperation
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ammunition
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,
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n

anti-aircraft guns
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anti-tank guns (88 mm)
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n
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Armstrong
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-pounder
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Boers buy Krupps
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at Culloden (1746)
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cuts to Royal Artillery after First World War
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direct fire and indirect fire
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at Edgehill and Naseby
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at Alamein
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Experimental Mobile Force and
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Falklands War (1982)
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fire plan
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n

gunnery teaching
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Imjin (1951)
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Marlborough period
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n

Maxim-Nordenfeldt breech-loading
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Neuve Chapelle and Somme concentration
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n

at Omdurman (1898)
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Peninsular War
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the ‘Priest’
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n

Royal Ordnance
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-pounder field gun
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n
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&
n
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‘Shell Scandal’ (1915)
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shrapnel
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at Waterloo (1815)
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Artois (Pas de Calais), spring offensive (1915)
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Ashanti campaign (1873–4)
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n

‘Ashanti Ring’
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Ashanti War, First (1823–31)
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Asquith, Herbert
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Assaye, battle (1803)
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Astley, Jacob (Sergeant-Major-General)
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‘Atlantic Wall’ (Normandy)
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Attlee, Clement
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Auchinleck, Gen. Sir Claude
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Augsburg, League of (1686)
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Austerlitz, battle (1805)
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Australia, mounted troops in South Africa
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Australia and New Zealand Corps (ANZAC), Gallipoli (1915)
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,
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n

Australian army, Indonesian Confrontation
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Australian Imperial Force, at Alamein
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,
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Australian SAS
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Austrian army

closing on France (1815)
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light troops
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Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)
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Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)
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n

Badajoz, battle (1812)
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Baden-Powell, Col. Robert
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Bagnall, Gen. Sir Nigel, review of tactical doctrine
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Baha Musa (death in custody)
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Bahadur Shah, Mughal emperor, reinstated by mutineers
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Baird, Maj.-Gen. Sir David
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Baker, Ezekiel, Baker rifle
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n
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Baker, Valentine (Baker Pasha)
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n

Balaklava, battle (1854)
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Balkans
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balloons, observation
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Barbero, Alessandro, on the British soldier
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Baring, Sir Evelyn
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Barker, Lt-Gen. Michael
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Barnett, Correlli
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n
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Barnsley Pals (service battns York and Lancaster Regt)
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Barrackpore, Indian mutiny
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Bartholomew Committee of Inquiry (Dunkirk)
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n

bashi bazouks
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Basra

British forces in
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,
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withdrawal to airport
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battle of Britain (1940)
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‘battle procedure’ (military doctrine)
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battles, pitched battles and skirmishes
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&
n

Baugh, Lt (34th Bengal Native Infantry)
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Bavaria, War of Spanish Succession
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Beatson, Col. William F. (East India Company Army)
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Beattie, Capt Doug (RIR)
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Bechuanaland (Botswana)
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Beeston, Richard (journalist)
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n

Beharry, Pte Johnson, VC (PWRR)
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Belgium

Belgian battalion in Korea
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German invasion (1940)
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violation of neutrality (1914)
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Belgrano
, Argentine cruiser
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Bemis Heights and Freeman’s farm, battle (1777)
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Bengal, Nawab of
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Bengal Native Infantry, disbanded
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Bengal presidency
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Beresford, William Carr, viscount, Marshal (Portuguese army)
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n
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Albuera (1811)
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n

Badajoz
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Berlin

partitioned
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Soviet blockade (1948)
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Bertie, Robert, earl of Lindsey
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Berwick on Tweed, Hawksmoor barracks
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Bessbrook military base (Armagh)
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Bevan, Lt-Col. Charles (4th King’s Own)
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n

Bhurtpore, siege and battle (1826)
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Bingley, L/Cpl Gary (2 Para)
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Birdwood, Maj.-Gen. William
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Bishop, Patrick,
3PARA
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n
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Bishops’War, Second (1640)
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n

Bismarck, prince Otto von
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Bismarck
(German battleship)
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Blair, Lt-Col. David (QOHldrs)
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Blair, Tony

Balkan politics
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‘Bloody Sunday’ inquiries
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Iraq war (2003)
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n

support for Bush’s ‘war on terror’
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Blathwayt, William, secretary at war (1683–1717)
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Blenheim (Blindheim), battle (1704)
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Blenheim Palace
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Bloem, Capt Walter,
The Advance from Mons
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n

Bloemfontein, British advance (1900)
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Blücher, Prince Gephard von, Marshal
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Bluecoats (Prince Rupert’s regiment)
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Blunt, Crispin
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Board of Ordnance
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n,
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,
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,
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Bobbitt, Philip,
The Shield of Achilles
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Boer republics, German armaments
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Boer Wars
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official inquiry and report
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Bogside (Londonderry)
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Bombay
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bombs (improvised explosive devices/IEDs)

Helmand
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Iraq
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Northern Ireland
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Bosnia