The Making Of The British Army (104 page)

see also
Dutch Republic; Spanish Netherlands

Neuve Chapelle, battle (1915)
(i)

New, Cpl Sam (Household Cavalry)
(i)

New Model Army
(i)
New York Times
(ii)

New Zealand army

at Alamein (1942)
(i)
,
(ii)

First World War
see
Australia and New Zealand Corps (ANZAC)

Indonesian Confrontation
(i)

New Zealand SAS
(i)

Newcastle Pals (16 & 17 NF)
(i)

Ney, Michel, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)

Nightingale, Florence
(i)

Nile, battle (1798)
(i)

Nile campaign (1884–5)
(i)

9/11 ‘Twin Towers’ attack (2001)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Noailles, Adrien Maurice, duc de
(i)
,
(ii)

Nolan, Capt Louis (15th Hussars)
(i)

Normandy (1944)

inland campaign
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

landings
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n
,
(v)

North, Frederick, Lord North
(i)
,
(ii)

North, John,
North-West Europe
1944–5
(i)
n

North Africa

Alamein (1942)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Anglo-US landings (1942)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

defeat of Italian army (1940 & 1942)
(i)
,
(ii)

North America

American Revolutionary War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

garrisons
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Loyalists
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Seven Years War (1756–63)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
; British gains from
(vi)
,
(vii)

War of Austrian Succession
(i)

North Atlantic Charter, Article 5
(i)
&
n

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
see
NATO

North Korea, attack on South Korea (1950)
(i)

Northampton, earl of
see
Compton, James

Northern Ireland

effect on Falklands War
(i)

‘Green’ areas
(i)
&n

internment
(i)

media coverage
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

no-go areas
(i)

peace dividend
(i)

Troubles
(i)
,
(ii)

see also
Ireland

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Norway, German invasion (1940)
(i)

Nott, Sir John
(i)

nuclear weapons, tactical
(i)

nursing
(i)
,
(ii)

Oakapple Day
(i)

Obama, Barack (US President)
(i)

O’Connell, Daniel
(i)
n

O’Connor, Lt-Gen. Richard
(i)

Officer Training Corps (OTC)
(i)
&
n

officers
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

class consciousness after First World War
(i)

general officers
(i)

relations with soldiers
(i)
&
n

official campaign histories
(i)
&n
,
(ii)

Omaha beach (
Overlord)
(i)

Oman, operations in
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

Omdurman, battle (1898)
(i)

O’Neill, Maj. Hubert, coroner on ‘Bloody Sunday’ deaths
(i)

Oosterbeek rail bridge
(i)

Operation Banner (Northern Ireland)
(i)

Operation Barras (Sierra Leone)
(i)
n

Operation Charge of the Knights (Iraq)
(i)

Operation Desert Storm
see
Gulf War, First

Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk, 1940)
(i)

Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)
(i)
,
(ii)

Operation Granby (1st Gulf War)
(i)

Operation Husky (Sicily)
(i)

Operation Market Garden (Arnhem)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

Operation Motorman (Northern Ireland)
(i)

Operation Neptune (Normandy beachhead)
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Operation Overlord (Normandy)
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

Operation Sinbad (Basra)
(i)

Operation Torch (North West Africa, 1942)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

operational art (campaign planning)
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Opium War, First (1839–42)
(i)

Oporto, battle (1809)
(i)

O’Sullivan, Col. John (Jacobite chief of staff)
(i)

Oudenarde, battle (1708)
66
,
(i)

Ouwerkerk, Gen. Hendrik van Nassau
(i)

Owen, Lt Wilfred (Manchester Regt)
(i)

Paget, Lt-Gen. Sir Arthur
(i)

Paget, Maj.-Gen. Edward
(i)

Paget, Gen. Lord George
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Paget, Lt-Gen. Henry William (Lord Uxbridge), marquess of Anglesey
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
&
n
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Pakistan, and Taleban/Al-Qaeda
(i)
,
(ii)

Palmerston, Henry John Temple,
(i)
rd viscount
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Pandey, Mangal, Sepoy (34th Bengal Native Infantry)
(i)

Pandours, irregulars
(i)

Papelotte (Waterloo)
(i)
,
(ii)

Parachute Regt

‘Bloody Sunday’
(i)

Falklands War
(i)
,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

in Helmand
(i)
,
(ii)

Operation Market Garden (Arnhem)
(i)

Sierra Leone hostage rescue
(i)
n

Warrenpoint ambush
(i)

Paris,
(i)
nd Peace of (1783)
(ii)

Parker, Capt Robert (Royal Regt of Ireland)
(i)
,
(ii)

Parkman, Francis
(i)

Parliament

British Army status and control of
(i)

military estimates and
(i)

and post-Restoration army
(i)
,
(ii)

royal prerogative and
(i)

tight control of army
(i)

see also
Civil Service; England; Britain

Passchendaele
(i)

Pathans, in Indian mutiny
(i)

Patton, US Gen. George S.
(i)

peacekeeping operations

Bosnia
(i)
,
(ii)

fire discipline
(i)

Pegasus Bridge (1944)
(i)

Pelham, Henry
(i)

Peninsular War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Penn Symons, Maj.-Gen. William
(i)

Penrith, battle (1745)
(i)

Pepys, Samuel
(i)

Peto, Sir Morton
(i)

Petraeus, US Gen. David
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Iraq surge
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Philadelphia, occupied by Gen. Howe
(i)

Philip V, king of Spain
(i)

Philippine army, in Korea (1951)
(i)

‘phoney war’
(i)

Piaggi, Lt-Col. Italo (Argentine army)
(i)

Picton, Gen. Sir Thomas, at Badajoz
(i)
n

Piedmont–Sardinian expeditionary force, Crimea (1855)
(i)
n

Pike, Lt-Col. Hew (3 Para)
(i)
,
(ii)

From the Front Line
(i)
n

Pitt, William (the elder)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Pitt, William (the younger)
(i)

‘Plan 1919’
(i)

Plassey, battle (1757)
(i)

platoon system
(i)