Noun1.English Civil War- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648 Drogheda- in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants battle of Marston Moor,Marston Moor- a battle in 1644 in which the Parli...
British foreign aid in the war with France, 1793-1815, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1969.Sherwig, John M. (1969): Guineas and Gunpowder. British Foreign Aid in the Wars with France, 1793-1815, Harvard University Press....
Apparently, kids of my generation liked tractors. I couldn’t have cared less. They just looked old and I was interested in new. But I find I quite like them now, at least those used for military purposes in the Great War. This is the Foster-Daimler (or, sometimes, Daimler-Foster) ...
The end of the Cold War forced Western donors to rethink their aid relations with Africa. This book looks at two of these donors, France and Britain, and asks whether the development programmes of these former colonial powers have undergone radical changes since the end of the Old World Order...
Ypres, the Somme and the Sea: National Memorials of the Great War in Brick But two of the most severe losses sustained by the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium are commemorated by structures largely constructed of brick: the Menin Gate at leper (in English, more usually known...
first 16 years of his career, with three shorts, and then two feature films, ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ and ‘The Long Day Closes’ (1992), finding different, personal and poetic ways of making sense of his recollections of his childhood in a post-war, working-class Liverpool home....
How did the British economy endure the long test of nearly twenty-two years of war against Revolutionary France and did the conflict hinder its development? Victory was the fruit of its effort, but this was not without serious difficulties, and conversely, without significant advantages eventually ...
Michael Foot, a well-qualified academician (University of Manchester) who had had war experience with SAS (Special Airborne Service), agreed to undertake the task of explaining what SOE was and what it did. Although hampered by incredible restrictions from officialdom, he nevertheless had ...
British foreign propaganda during the Second World War have focused on propaganda directed towards Germany. British propaganda to France, which in terms of quantity of output was actually the most important area of British propaganda, has never been examined in depth until now. This book adds a ...
ww2dbase(b) Sail with reduced crews under our control to a British port. The reduced crews would be repatriated at the earliest moment. ww2dbaseIf either of these courses is adopted by you we will restore your ships to France at the conclusion of the war or pay full compensation if they...