Download or read book Britain s Lost Regiments written by Trevor Royle and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone of a singular institution that is itself a reflection of the way the people of Britain view themselves and their collective past. Beginning with the Glorious "revolution" of 1660 and the return to the throne of King Charles II, it was a time when Cromwell's Commonwealth and his military institutions were not popular. But the new king had to be protected and the country had to be defended. Through a process of slow growth and frequent tardiness an army eventually came into being and from the outset it was based solidly on a regimental system which needed steady supplies of recruits to keep it in being. Since then, men have joined up for many valid reasons such as adventure, patriotism or a sense of duty; but not all motives were commendable. For every young man attracted by the chance to wear a uniform there would be many more who had fallen foul of the law, been poverty-stricken or fallen into debt, or had committed a sexual indiscretion. Others were simply coerced. With the exception of the two great world wars of the twentieth century the Army rarely numbered more than 250,000 and in 2020 its numbers will have fallen to 82,000, a poor reward, one would have thought, for all past endeavours. Over the years periods of warfare have always been followed by times of peace when expenditure on the armed forces dropped, soldiers were made redundant and regiments, mainly infantry, were either disbanded or amalgamated, often with painful consequences. However, there is a case for saying that no regiment is ever entirely lost and that it will always live on in men?s minds as a mystical entity. The British Army certainly makes a great deal of the ?golden thread? which still links, say, the Middlesex ?Die-Hards? to the modern Princess of Wales?s Royal Regiment, but the harsh reality is that those ties are only as strong as the men who made them. Like it or not, the old and bold soldiers are a dwindling band and once they have fallen out for the last time the regiments will be truly lost. For this reason Trevor Royle now explores the histories of the many regiments that have disappeared; to celebrate their existence as well as the men and officers who served with distinction within them.
Download or read book Famous regiments of the British army their origin and services With a sketch of the rise and progress of the military establishment of England and brief memoirs of eminent British generals written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with my Mum written by Brett Gibson and published by Brett B Gibson. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother's unknown family history of New Zealand immigration. It culminates five years of research into the stories of each of her settler and colonist ancestors who founded original branches of many New Zealand family lines. This book is a reconstruction of their backgrounds and life stories interspersed with my own immigration experiences to the US.
Download or read book Warfare and Armed Conflicts written by Micheal Clodfelter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its revised and updated fourth edition, this exhaustive encyclopedia provides a record of casualties of war from the last five centuries through 2015, with new statistical and analytical information. Figures include casualties from global terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fight against the Islamic State. New entries cover an additional 20 armed conflicts between 1492 and 2007 not included in previous editions. Arranged roughly by century and subdivided by world region, chronological entries include the name and dates of the conflict, precursor events, strategies and details, the outcome and its aftermath.
Download or read book In the Forests of Freedom written by Lennox Honychurch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society. The Maroons, runaways who escaped slavery, formed their own community on the Caribbean island. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica, little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap. Honychurch takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social, and economic impact of the Maroons and details their struggles and victories.
Download or read book Historical Records of the XXX Regiment written by Great Britain. Army. East Lancashire Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps written by Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borrowed Soldiers written by Mitchell A. Yockelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Download or read book Britain s Sea soldiers written by Cyril Field and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery written by Francis Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Account of the Services of the 34th 55th Regiments the Linked Line Battalions in the 2d Or Cumberland Westmorland Subdistrict Brigade from the Periods of Their Formation Until the Present Time written by George Noakes and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the King s Liverpool Regiment Formerly the Eighth Foot written by T. R. Threlfall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I written by Michael A. Eggleston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of Germany. Marine units were among the first to arrive in war-torn Europe in 1917, and they sustained greater casualties than other American units. This book tells the story of the "Devil Dogs" in World War I and the years after through the recollections of veterans recorded over the past century. The influenza epidemic that raged during the war is discussed. An annotated roster of the regiment lists each Marine, with service details provided where known.
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Crimean Campaign with the 55th Regiment written by John Richard Hume and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Regimental Records of the First Battalion the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1644 1842 written by George John Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Scotland Its Highlands Regiments and Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Services of the 64th Regiment Second Straffordshire 1758 to 1881 written by Henry George Purdon and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
