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The British Armed Forces protect the United Kingdom, the British overseas territories and the Crown dependencies and take part in United Nations peacekeeping missions [8] NATO missions.
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This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and ...
Mar 3, 2019 · The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
- Introduction
- Tudor and Stuart Organisation
- English Civil War
- Interregnum
- Restoration
- Operations
- Amalgamation Into The British Army
- See Also
- References
- Further Reading
Primitive steps towards standing armed forces began in the Middle Ages: the Assize of Arms of 1252 issued by King Henry IIIprovided that small landholders should be armed and trained with a bow, and those of more wealth would be required to possess and be trained with sword, dagger and longbow. That Assize referred to a class of Forty shilling free...
Prior to the English Civil War in 1642 the English Tudor and Stuart monarchs maintained a personal bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard (created by Henry VII) and the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms or "gentlemen pensioners" (created by Henry VIII), and a few locally raised companies to garrison important places such as Berwick on Tweed, Portsmou...
In 1642, at the start of the English Civil War both the Royalists (Cavaliers) and Parliament (Roundheads) raised men when and where they could, and both claimed legal justification. Parliament claimed to be justified by its own recent "Militia Ordinance", while the king claimed the old-fashioned "Commissions of Array". For example, in Cornwall the ...
During the Interregnum (1649–1660) the power of all the republican experiments in governance relied on the military might of the New Model Army, which, whenever it was called upon, was easily able to meet the challenges of its enemies, both foreign and domestic. Two particularly notable events of the interregnum were to have long-lasting effects. T...
On 26 January 1661, Charles II issued the Royal Warrant that created the first regiments of what would become the British Army, although Scotland and England maintained separate military establishments until the Acts of Union 1707. A third military establishment, the Irish Army also existed in the Kingdom of Ireland. For some of his enforced exile ...
The Second Anglo-Dutch War was predominately a maritime war but English army soldiers were involved in Holmes's Bonfire (19–20 August 1666), the Raid on the Medway (June 1667), the Battle of Landguard Fort (2 July 1667), the Capture of Cayenne (1667), and Recapture of Fort Zeelandia (1667). The Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) was a maritime war, ...
Shortly after the Act of Union in 1707 the English and Scottish armies were amalgamated to form the British Army. The order of seniority for the most senior line regiments in the British Army is based on the order of seniority in the English army. Scottish and Irish regiments were only allowed to take a rank in the English army from the date of the...
Asquith, Stuart (1981), New Model Army 1645–60 (illustrated ed.), Osprey, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-85045-385-0Barker, Juliet (2005), Agincourt: the King the Campaign the Battle, London: Little Brown, ISBN 978-0-316-72648-1Bartlett, Clive (1995), The English Longbowman, 1330-1515, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85532-4916Childs, John (2013), Army of Charles II, Routledge, pp. 185–190, ISBN 978-1-134-52859-2Chandler, David G. (2003), "The Restoration Army 1660–1702", The Oxford History of the British Army, Oxford University Press, pp. 46–66, ISBN 978-0-19-280311-5Childs, John (2013) [1976], Army of Charles II, Routledge, pp. 181–182, ISBN 978-1-134-52866-0Dalton, Charles (1904), English army lists and commission registers, 1661–1714, vol. 1, London: Eyre & SporttiswoodeFirth, C. H. (1898), "Royalist and Cromwellian Armies in Flanders, 1657–1662", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, London, pp. 69–119The British Army is the army of the British Armed Forces, the military of the United Kingdom. The British Army came into being with unification of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.
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An army, [1] ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by possessing an army aviation component.
