The Making Of The British Army (105 page)

Plumer, Lt-Gen. Sir Herbert
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Pocock, Admiral Sir George
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Poland, invaded by Germany (1939)
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police forces, London and counties
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Polish army,
(i)
st Independent Parachute Brigade
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Port Stanley (E. Falkland)
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,
(ii)

Portillo, Michael, on Iraq War
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n
Portugal

Britain’s responsibility
(i)

civil war (1827)
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independence from Spain
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,
(ii)

invaded by French
(i)

Lines of Torres Vedras
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Portuguese army, Wellington and
(i)

Potsdam Conference (1945)
(i)

press, the

Curragh Incident
(i)

see also
media coverage

Preston

Jacobite surrender (1715)
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Lancastrian brigade depot
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Prestonpans, battle (1745)
(i)

Price, John (Monck’s chaplain)
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Prince of Wales
, HMS
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,
(ii)

Prinsloo, (Boer) Commandant Marthinus
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prisoners of war

Alamein (1942)
(i)

Arnhem
(i)

Dunkirk (1940)
(i)

Falklands (1982)
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,
(ii)

Korea (Imjin River)
(i)

Normandy (1944)
(i)

Singapore and Malaya
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‘private armies’
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privateers
(i)

Prussia

Bismarck’s militarism
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military prowess
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,
(ii)

Schleswig-Holstein war (1863–4)
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war with France (1870–1)
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,
(ii)

Prussian army
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,
(ii)

jaegers
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mobilization method
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Waterloo (1815)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Quatre Bras, battle (1815)
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Quebec, battle (1759)
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,
(ii)

Queen beach (
Overlord)
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Queen Elizabeth II
(troop transport)
(i)

Quiberon Bay, battle (1759)
(i)

Radfan, insurgency
(i)

Raglan, FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan

C-in-C Crimea
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&n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)

ADC at Waterloo
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Raleigh, Sir Walter
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Ramillies, battle (1706)
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Ramsay, Adm. Sir Bertram RN
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Rani of Jhansi
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Rawlinson, Lt-Gen. Sir Henry
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n

rearmament (1930s)
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reconnaissance
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

recruitment

difficulties (1920s)
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Irish emigration and
(i)

late
(i)
th-century problems
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,
(iii)

late
(i)
th-century
(ii)
,
(iii)

see also
conscription

Red River expedition (Canada, 1870)
(i)

Rees, Brig. Hubert Conway
(i)

regimental museums
(i)

regimental system

anatomy of a (virtual) regiment
(i)

battalions
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

benefits
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,
(ii)

Cardwell–Childers reforms
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,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

competitiveness
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county connections
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,
(ii)
n
,
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,
(iv)

depot barracks
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,
(ii)

foundations laid
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lack of common organization
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Lancastrian brigade
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linked battalion system
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and morale
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,
(ii)

numbering and naming
(i)

regimental identity
(i)

structure
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

see also
Kitchener’s New Armies

Regular Commissions Board
(i)

Reichenau, Gen. von (German
(i)
th Army)
(ii)

Reid, John (UK defence secretary)
(i)
,
(ii)

Repington, Col. Charles (military correspondent)
(i)

Repulse
, HMS
(i)

Rhodesian SAS
(i)

Richards, Gen. Sir David (CGS)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)

Ridge, Lt-Col. Henry (5th Foot)
(i)

Riedesel, Maj.-Gen. Baron von (Brunswick Regt)
(i)

Ritchie, Lt-Gen. Sir Neil (CinC FELF)
(i)

River Dyle (Dijle), defensive line
(i)
,
(ii)

Roberts, Andrew,
Waterloo, Napoleon’s Last Gamble
(i)
n

Roberts, FM Frederick Sleigh (Bobs), VC,
(i)
st earl of Kandahar
(ii)
n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Roberts, Lt Frederick, VC (KRRC)
(i)
n

Roberts, Maj.-Gen. George Philip (‘Pip’)
(i)
&
n

Robertson, George (UK defence secretary)
(i)

Robertson, Lt-Gen. (
later
FM) Sir William (‘Wully’)
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

Rochefort, failed raid (1757)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Roliça, battle (1808)
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Roman legions
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Rome, captured by allies (1944)
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Rommel, FM Erwin

on British defence
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Normandy
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North Africa
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,
(ii)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (US President), Churchill and
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Roosevelt, Theodore (US President)
(i)

Rorke’s Drift (1879)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Rose, Gen. Sir Michael
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Rosenberg, Lt Isaac (11th King’s Own), ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’
(i)
&
n

Rossbach, battle (1757)
(i)

Rottenburg, Baron Francis de
(i)

Roundheads
(i)

Rowe, Col. (Brig.-Gen.) Archibald (Scots Fzlrs)
(i)

Royal Air Force

Alamein
(i)

in BAOR
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bomber strategy
(i)
,
(ii)

defence priority funding
(i)

Indonesian Confrontation
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Normandy campaign
(i)
,
(ii)

Northern Ireland
(i)

see also
Royal Flying Corps

Royal Army Chaplains’ Department
(i)
&
n

Royal Engineers Balloon School (Chatham)
(i)
,
(ii)

Royal Flying Corps
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

reconnaissance
(i)

see also
Royal Air Force

Royal Hospital (Chelsea)
(i)
&
n

Royal Marines

Brunei revolt (1962–3)
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Falklands War (1982)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)

forerunner of
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&
n

Helmand
(i)

Iraq
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Malayan Emergency
(i)

Royal Military Academy (Woolwich)
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,
(ii)

see also
Sandhurst

Royal Naval Air Service
(i)

Royal Navy

blockade of French ports
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‘blue-water’ school of defence
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Britain’s bulwark
(i)

cooperation with army
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,
(ii)
,
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,
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,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
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