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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...
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^During the Second World War the Japanese had put some effort into pressuring thousands of Indian prisoners captured in Malaya into joining the Indian National Army (Peter Ward Fay, The Forgotten Army (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993)), but showed no interest in suborning their British captives, whil...
[224] To the three colonies that had been granted independence in the 1950s—Sudan, the Gold Coast and Malaya—were added nearly ten times that number during the 1960s.[225] Owing to the rapid pace of decolonisation during this period, the cabinet post of Secretary of State for the ...
shaped the emergence of what we might call a ‘geography of occupation’ on the peninsula. This geography, which evolved over time, operated to partition Malaya's social and economic geography in a particular manner, ultimately giving shape to the spatiality of the emergency in the 1950s. ...
The old Bengal Army almost completely vanished from the order of battle. These troops were replaced by new units recruited from castes hitherto underutilized by the British and from the minority so-called “martial races,” such as the Sikhs and the Gurkhas. There were also fewer European ...
This led to a revolt in Malaya in 1948, led by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), members of which had fought with the British against the Japanese during the War. The MCP renamed themselves the Malaya Races Liberation Army (MRLA) and disappeared into the dense jungle that covered most ...
The first Civil War broke out in 1642 between the Royalists known as the Cavaliers (保王党人) and the Parliamentarians known as the Roundheads (圆颅党人). Oliver Cromwell led the New Model Army (新模范军) and fought bravely against the King's troops. In 1646, Charles I could struggle...
British General Gerald Templer test firing a De Lisle carbine, Perak, Malaya, 1952 (source: British National Army Museum Identification Code NAM 1981-04-77-1). Usage The De Lisle was designed for use by special operations forces, primarily the British Commando Brigades, rather than for dropping...