Articles related to "Royal Army"

The Royal Logistics Corps Museum was established at Deepcut, Surrey in 1993 and tells the story of British Army logistical support over the last 500 years.

During the Boer War, British surgeons and doctors made massive advancements in the treatment of wounded soldiers. Efficiency in procedures led to less deaths in battle.

In a war that began with million man armies of conscripts fighting it out toe to toe, the Royal Army distinguished itself in personal combat.

"War and Medicine" looks at the relationship between war and medicine through the experiences of doctors, nurses, military personnel, civilians, artists and writers.

The failure of Henry III, King of England, to properly address the grievances of his nobles led first to dissent and then to war.

While the ancient blood feud known as the duel was in decline in Western Europe it was on the rise elsewhere.

In the wake of the Prayer Book Crisis, the Scottish Convenanter army marched to England. Charles I formed his own rag-tag army to meet them in the first of two Bishop's W

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.

Life as a pirate has been romanticized by novels and movies. Even though it was dangerous and violent, pirates themselves defended its allure and adventure.

Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars takes elements and characters from Alice in Wonderland and re-imagines them into a new story about the power of imagination.

The first combat paratroop drops after WW II were conducted by crack Dutch commandos who had been trained originally by the British in 1942.

Montenegro began the war as the poorest equipped of all of the 1914 armies but never faltered, and often outfought its enemies.

Underequipped, outnumbered, and fighting with its back to the mountains the Serbian National Army never shrank from its duties in World War One.

During the reign of King Henry VII, Perkin Warbeck claimed a birthright to the English throne, pretending to be Richard of Shrewsbury, son of King Edward IV.

Visit London's least-known palace and gardens, home to Tudor kings and 1930s millionaires. Art Deco Eltham is a glimpse of lost worlds and an unusual day out in London.

They were not famous at the time, but history would remember these writers, actors, politicans and popes more for what they would accomplish later than for the war.

For those American patriots who believed that Divine Providence favored their cause, the unlikely victory at Yorktown, Virginia provided proof for the ages.

Well equipped and fairly modern by eastern european standards, the Army of the Dual Monarchy suffered one of the worst morale problems imaginable.

A concise study of the career of Jasper Tudor, uncle to King Henry VII and Earl of Pembroke.

The Marquis de Lafayette volunteered in the American Revolution, befriended George Washington, protected the French royal family and was Napoleon's adversary.

The British Parliament's origins began with the Provisions of Oxford when the barons took control of the government, key appointments and reform of common law.

A concise overview of the civil wars that continued to plague England in the 13th century following the death of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham.