Some examples from ourPast Projectssection. 47th Regiment of Foot Private's Tunic 1865 British Light Company Sergeant 1835-1855 (Parks Canada) Royal Can. Rifles, 1846-1855 (Fort Wellington Nat. Historic Site)
history of the attempts to develop and improve the British Army's most important individual weapon - from the Ferguson of the American Revolution, to the Baker of the Napoleonic Wars, the Brunswick, the Snider, the Maritini-Henry and the famous Lee-Enfields - and the ammunition designed for ...
Green Berets from the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Soldiers from the British Army 4 Rifles, practice rope climbing techniques in a forested area of Ross-on-Wye, UK. The instruction and practice was part of joint exercise “Bold Legion” which brought the two teams together for ...
"Laying down their rifles: the changing influences on the retention of volunteer british army reservists returningDandeker, C., Eversden-French, C., Greenberg, N., Hatch, S., Riley, P., van Staden, L. & Wessely, S. (2010). Laying down their r...
(http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regts/the_rifles/) Reenactors in the uniform of the 33rd Regiment of Foot (Wellington’s Redcoats), who fought in the Napoleonic Wars between 1812 and 1816, here showing the standard line 8th Company.? WyrdLight-McCallumhttp://www.wyrdlight.eu ...
His Britannic Majesty’s Army in Germany during the Seven Year War by Savory Fortescue’s History of the British Army The previous battle of the Seven Years Waristhe Battle of Vellinghausen The next battle of the Seven Years War isthe Capture of Manilla ...
Another thought I had, which I expressed repeatedly while we were watching the movie, was that the Zulu army could have easily wiped out the British. All they had to do was useall their forces at the same time, and charge the British outpostfrom all directions at the same time, and sim...
but also in order to be able to better exploit the American industrial base that had allowed the Allies to win the Second World War. If Britain found itself short of rifles with a NATO/USSR conflict looming, it would be able to place an order for more rather than rely on its own very...
(Spadroon), 1780s-1800Introduced in the 1780s this was considered the first attempt at a uniform pattern sword for the British Infantry. Called the 5-ball Spadroon because of the 5 ball decoration on the hilt, this pattern proved quite popular and even the French and American army officers ...
At one point, the City brought in the National Guard (that’s sort of akin to the Territorial Army) and declared a curfew. Remember, too, that the social safety net has some massive holes here in the US. If you get fired from your job (because, say, you missed a couple of days...