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India British India, already plagued by revolts for over five years, completely collapsed into a Free Indian Republic in the north, proclaimed in Calcutta, a Indian-alignedRepublic of Burma,proclaimed in Rangoon, and the remnants of the British administration in Southern India, consisting of the ...
He had narrowly held on to his army career by the skin of his teeth (and the intervention of his cousin the King) and he had plunged the Royal Family into its only scandal in years by carrying on with an Irish actress which led to a much-publicised divorce case. The fact that ...
By contrast, the New Right within the Conservative Party but also powerful elements in the Army and Intelligence Services, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Unionism opposed conciliation as 'appeasement' and even treachery. They claimed conciliation and rumours of British politi...
Strike is also hostage to a watering down of the concept, mainly because risk aversion is a real thing in modern life. Strike methods of operation require a certain level of boldness, skill and innovation. Redefining how the British Army fights is not for the faint-hearted and needs to be...
320Pacific Strifeposition was considered to be, rumours began to circulate that the Chinese government intended to arrange for a new capital more to the south, out of easy reach of the Russian army.What happened in northeast Asia, and especially Russia gaining control over Port Arthur and the ...
Owen Stanwood, “Rumours and Rebellions in the English Atlantic World, 1688–9,” inThe Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688–91 in Their British, Atlantic and European Contexts, eds. Tim Harris and Steven Taylor (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2013), 214. [ ...
There are several rumours that one was developed in France around 1815 and that some breech-loading muskets using it were built and were used at the Battle of Waterloo in the same year. But in the confusion surrounding the end of this battle, at least on the French side, the inventor ...
had been made for the supply of victuals64 and forage65; and altogether it was fortunate that the force escaped, through the pacification66 of Berwick, an engagement with the veterans from the Swedish service under old Alexander Leslie that composed a large portion of the Scottish army. ...
Indian princes volunteered their men, money, and personal service, while leaders of the Congress Party—from Tilak, who had just been released from Mandalay and had wired the king-emperor vowing his patriotic support, to Gandhi, who toured Indian villages urging peasants to join the British army...