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at Corunna
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D-Day
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defence priority funding
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Dunkirk evacuation
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failure to intercept hostile shipping
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Falklands task force
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inter-war dependence on
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loses control of American coast
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at Louisbourg
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Napoleonic wars
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Royal Naval Division (First World War)
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n

support for Wolfe
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Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)
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B Specials
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Rumsfeld, Donald
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Runcie, Robert (archbishop of Canterbury)
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n

Rupert of the Rhine, Prince
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Rupprecht of Bavaria, Prince General
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Russell, Lt-Col. Charles (1st Foot Gds)
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Russell, William Howard (war correspondent)
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n
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Russia

Crimean War (1854–6)
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First World War
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see also
Soviet Union

Russian army

closing on France (1815)
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in Kosovo
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&
n

Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)
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Russo-Turkish War (1877–8)
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Ryan, Cornelius,
A Bridge Too Far
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Rye House Plot (1683)
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&
n

Ryswick, Treaty of (1697)
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Sackville, Maj.-Gen. Lord George
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n
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American strategy
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assessment of American rebellion
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court martial
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al-Sadr, Muqtada
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St Leger, Brig.-Gen. Barrimore
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St Vincent, Adm. John Jervis, Earl
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Salamanca

battle (1812)
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n
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Moore at (1808)
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Saltoun, Lord Saltoun, at Waterloo (1815)
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San Carlos (E. Falkland)
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Sandhurst
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see also
Royal Military Academy (Woolwich)

Sandys, Duncan (war minister)
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sangars
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&n

Sarajevo, pistol shot (1914)
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Saratoga, battle (1777)
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SAS
see
Special Air Service

Sassoon, Lt Siegfried (RWF)

Somme (1916)
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,
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Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man
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‘The Redeemer’ from
The Old Huntsman
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&n

Saville, Lord Saville of Newdigate, second ‘Bloody Sunday’ inquiry
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Scarlett, Brig.-Gen. Sir James
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Schleswig-Holstein war (1863–4)
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Schlieffen, Alfred von, count
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Schlieffen Plan
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n

Schomberg, Gen. Frederick
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Schuyler, US Gen. Philip
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Schwarzkopf, US Gen. Norman
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Scotland

Act of Union with England (1707)
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‘Highland Watches’
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Highlanders divided over the ‘Forty-five’
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invasion by Gen. Monck (1650)
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Jacobite rebellions
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pacification of the Highlands
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post-Restoration regiments
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Restoration of monarchy (1660)
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Scott, Sir Walter
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Rob Roy
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Waverley
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Scutari military hospital
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Seacole, Mary
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Second World War
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,
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,
(iii)

British army preparedness
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n

post-war professionalism
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(ii)

see also
individual battles

Seely, Col. Jack (Imp. Yeomanry)
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,
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Seitz, Raymond,
Over Here
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Selly Oak hospital
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&
n

Seoul
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Serbia, NATO intervention over Kosovo (1999)
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Seringapatam, siege and capture (1799)
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Services Rehabilitation Centre (Headley Court)
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Seven Years War (1756–63)
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British strategies
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Seville, Treaty of (1729)
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Shaw, George Bernard, on the British soldier
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&
n

Sheriffmuir, battle (1715)
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Sherriff, R. C.
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Shia insurgency, Iraq
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Shirreff, Maj.-Gen. (
later
Lt-Gen.) Richard
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Shorncliffe, light infantry training
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Showali, Maj. (Afghan police)
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Shrivenham, Staff College
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Siberia, British anti-Bolshevik intervention
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sieges, no quarter rule
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n

Sierra Leone, hostage rescue (2000)
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n

Sikh regiments, in Indian Mutiny
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Silesia, Prussian prize
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Singapore

surrender of (1942)
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withdrawal from
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Sir Galahad
, RFA (LSL)
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Sittang Bridge, School of Infantry exercise
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n

Skippon, Sir Philip (Sjt-Maj.-Gen.)
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Slim, Lt-Gen. (
later
FM Sir) William

appoints Briggs Director of Operations (Malaya)
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Burma campaign (1943–5)
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influence and legacy
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National Service period extended
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Defeat into Victory
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Sloggett, Surgeon-Gen. Sir Arthur
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‘small wars’
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Smith, Adam,
the Wealth of Nations
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n
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&
n

Smith, Cecil Woodham
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Smith-Dorrien, Gen. Sir Horace

Marne/Aisne/Ypres
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Mons
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n

relieved of command
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Smith, Revd George (chaplain), at Rorke’s Drift (1879)
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Smith, Gen. Sir Rupert
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n
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Snoxall, Sjt-Instructor (School of Musketry)
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Solms, Lt-Gen. Count
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Somalia (1992), effect on US thinking
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Somme, battle (1916)
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&
n
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effect of on politico-military thinking
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n
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war poets
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Sophia, Electress of Hanover
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Sosabowski, Maj.-Gen. Stanislas
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Soult, Nicolas, Marshal
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South Africa

Boer Wars
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Cape frontier wars
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Mounted Infantry (MI)
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n
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Natal Mounted Police
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