The army’s most ambitious, though ill-managed, campaign was fought in Mesopotamia. In October 1914, before Turkey joined forces with the Central Powers, the government of India launched an army to the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab to further Viceroy Curzon’s policy of control over the ...
There was a story going around in the New Year that the peasants whose houses the prisoners occupied had been promised them back before planting season; and for once events seemed to bear out the rumour. At the start of February the journalists and diplomats were transferred to a house in a...
These trials also concluded that the UST25 Lightweight Rifleand the developmental T65 7.6 2mm (.30 calibre) round submitted for testing were ‘not suitable for Army Field Forces use because of its excessive recoil, blast, flash and smoke’, and nonetheless concluded that ‘of the basic types ...
The army’s most ambitious, though ill-managed, campaign was fought in Mesopotamia. In October 1914, before Turkey joined forces with the Central Powers, the government of India launched an army to the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab to further Viceroy Curzon’s policy of control over the ...
But a war with Gwalior in December 1843, designed to keep its large army out of hostile hands, frustrated these plans, and the directors, exasperated by Ellenborough’s arrogant self-will, resolved in April 1844 to recall him. On his return he was created an earl and viscount. Ellenborough...