While some former colonies like Canada and Australia had been granted their political independence, they still looked to Britain as the centre of their political and cultural world and assisted loyally in British efforts to defeat Hitler's army. 战争结束时,英国是西欧最大的军事强国。 When the war...
The British army occupied Kabul, as it had in the first war, and a treaty signed at Gandamak on May 26, 1879, was concluded with the former emir’s son, Yaʿqūb Khan. Yaʿqūb Khan promised, in exchange for British support and protection, to admit to his Kabul court a British ...
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Two things are well known about Powell and Pressburger’s 1943 epic about the life of an old-fashioned ex-army officer serving in the Home Guard during World War II: Churchill disliked the whole idea of it, and may have thought it was about him, and the Blimp character, over-fed and ...
Following the aftermath of World War II, Britain's colonies fought for their independence. India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947, followed by Burma in 1948. Newfoundland also joined the Dominion of Canada in 1949. Egypt forced the British army out of the country and the Suez Canal Zon...
he joined the British Army's Royal Sussex Regiment straight from school. He served in the Middle East and was promoted to captain. He was demobilised in 1946 and joined the Foreign Office, using his experience of the Middle East to good effect. He was a political officer in Abu Dhabi fro...
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There are three main branches of the UK armed forces, the British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Marines. Of the 138,120 people serving in the UK’s armed forces in 2024, over half of them were in the British Army, which had 75,320 personnel. The next ...
In the latter part of August, as twin stop-gap measures, a pair of British Army infantry battalions from the Hong Kong garrison were hurriedly shipped northward and work begun in the Admiralty on assembling at speed several hundred trained men from various establishments to form a Royal Marine ...
In 1651, Cromwell destroyed Charles I's army, which marked the end of the Civil Wars. The monarchy was abolished and England was declared a commonwealth and governed as a republic. 第一次内战于1642年在保王党人(保王党人)和被称为圆颅党人的议员之间爆发。奥利弗·克伦威尔率领新模范军,英勇地...