Articles related to "British Soldiers"

Laurence Binyon's speaker celebrates the transcendence of the soldiers who have fought so bravely and died for freedom.

When Britain sent soldiers to Boston to enforce tax laws in 1768, Bostonians were on edge because of soldiers firing on civilians in London months before

Though St. Patrick's Day has become identified with Irish nationalism and Roman Catholic observance, its origins in America were Protestant, and British.

The attempted retreat from the Kabul cantonments in January 1842 was one of the worst disasters in British military history.

The Anglo Boer War (sometimes known as the South African War) was fought between the Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and Transvaal and the British Empire.

In his latest book, Fusiliers, Mark Urban provides a fascinating history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and their role in the American War of Independence.

Wilfred Owen's famous war poem describes the agony of war by dramatizing a single scene filled with the misery caused by mustard gas.

The only person punished in connection with the events on March 5, 1770, was a boy who killed no one and possibly wasn't even at the scene. He got whipped.

British Soldiers hoped to extract a panicky sentry from his post in front of raging Bostonians, many of whom assumed the soldiers' guns were not loaded. They were wrong.

The old Munroe Tavern still stands in Lexington, MA, a testimony to the passionate conflict between the Minutemen and the British that set off the American Revolution.

Moving. Inspiring. Amazing. Documentary Wounded proves that when the BBC put their minds to it, there really isn't anyone better at factual programming.

When Stella Rimington retired from her post as Britain's Chief Spook in 1996 she had the experience and knowledge to write the definitive, authentic, spy novel.

Nurse Edith Cavell, a Red Cross Nurse, helped stranded British soldiers escape from Belgium after the 1st Battle of Mons. In 1915 she was betrayed and shot by the Germans

James Nesbitt plays one of three British soldiers whose lives detonate after experiencing the vicious chaos and human waste of the Iraq invasion during 2003.

It may have been Col. Thomas Fitch's shabbily dressed troops who inspired a British Army surgeon to write the derisive "Yankee Doodle".

Made famous by Rudyard Kipling's poem, fuzzy-wuzzy, the Beja Warriors came from an ancient people and were one of Britain's most fearsome colonial enemies.

Through his portraits, self-portraits, scenes of war or quiet rooms, the works of artist William Orpen reveal a many-faceted talent.

The route covers all of the major battle sites: Rorke's Drift, Blood River, Tlana, Isandlwana, as well as the siege of Ladysmith and the dramatic Drakensberg Mountains.

Led by Colonel John Glover and his regiment from Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small group of Continental soldiers managed to fight off the British at Pelham, New York.

Field Marshall Douglas Haig is often seen to be the reason for the BEF's failings during WW1. But is he actually to blame, or are there other factors?

Washington D.C. offers an extraordinary collection of haunted spots for the paranormal enthusiast and casual visitor looking for ghosts this Halloween season.

Americans were tested in a pitched battle East of Boston at the small village of Charlestown. Here it was first heard, "Don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes!"

The Crimean War is synonymous with one person, Florence Nightingale. At least that was until Mary Seacole was voted the winner of the 100 Great Black Britons poll in 2004

A look at the historic and political background of this complex drama about the troubles in Ireland starring Cillian Murphy as Irish freedom fighter Damien O'Donovan

Spontaneous, informal truces have not been uncommon during wartime. Enemies came together to listen to music, barter food, play football and even celebrate Christmas.

Following the results of a new poll showing public backing for the war in Afghanistan is falling, the British Army's commanders want to abandon a number of outlying bases

On 1st January, UK troops handed control of Basra Airport, a major UK military base, back to the Iraqis in a ceremony at the airport.

Inscriptions date from the 1620s at the Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston, where many founders of New England are buried.

A summary of how Sir David Bruce discovered the cause of Malta Fever, also called brucellosis

Norman Baxter led the RUC investigation into the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins

In 1846 the Governor of New Zealand ,Sir George Grey, was concerned about settlers in Auckland being attacked from the Waikato Maori, in the southern region of Auckland.

Niagara-on-the-Lake is a ninety-minute drive from Toronto. It has officially been a town since1781 and is famous for its annual Shaw Festival and its fine wineries.

The bodies of six soldiers have been repatriated, five of whom were shot by an Afghan policeman. The coffins were flown into the UK, with the body of Sgt Phillip Scott.

Despite its small size, Rorke's Drift is probably the most widely recognized battle of the Zulu War

On 7 March 2009, two British soldiers were shot dead in Northern Ireland, at an army base in Country Antrim. The RIRA gorup have claimed responsibility.

The Tea Act of 1773 was enacted by Parliament to increase pressures on the Colonial people and enhance the wealth of the British crown.

John Adams, member of the Federalist party, was a true American patriot, though once in office the politics of his party kept him from a second term.

Rudyard Kipling wrote poems and stories in praise of the British Empire and ridiculing native Indians. Rabindranath Tagore detested the empire. Both won the Nobel Prize.

As a central part of its newly devised "southern strategy," British military forces laid siege to the rebel stronghold and key seaport of Charleston, South Carolina.

The stunning beauty of the Gallipoli peninsula makes a visit to the battlefields and cemeteries of its fallen soldiers a serene experience.

May 2010 will mark 70 years since WW II Operation Dynamo gave rise to the phrase "the Dunkirk spirit". Just what was that spirit and what did the operation achieve?

Exchanging of gifts is a pleasures of the Christmas season. Few can say they received a gift from the monarch, but soldiers fighting the Boer War could say just that!

Hatboro has seen fascinating history: a Revolutionary War battle, a visit by future president George Washington, buildings and institutions dating over two centuries.

The religious and spiritual aspect lets it down slightly, but otherwise this is another triumphant novel from the British master of historical fiction

John Simpson Kirkpatrick is an Australian ANZAC legend. Jackie French honours Simpson and his donkey in the latest book in The Animal Stars series.

Edited by noted battlefield archaeologist Dr Tony Pollard, other contributors to this volume offer additional perspectives on Culloden and the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

Concord Massachusetts is the birthplace of modern America, here the first British deaths in the American War of Independence occured and a nation was born.

This gallery features European drawings, paintings and sculptures, including works by Daddi, Cézanne, Degas, Rubens, Cranach the Elder, Raoul Dufy and Edouard Manet.

How to respond to demands for the return of artwork and artifacts taken -- often illegally -- from other countries involves issues of national identity and stewardship.

When Lawrence, with his wife Freida, moved to Cornwall in1916 he saw it as a first step toward emigrating to America and away from a war he did not support..