The Making Of The British Army (97 page)

Clark, US Gen. Wesley
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,
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Clausewitz, Carl von
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,
(ii)

Clinton, Maj.-Gen. Henry
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Clive, Col. Robert, at Plassey (1756)
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Coke, Maj.-Gen. John Talbot
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Colborne, Col. Sir John (52nd Oxfordshire LI)
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,
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n

Cold War
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army deployment
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,
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Soviet threat
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,
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,
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,
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‘Coldstreamers’
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,
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Colley, Maj.-Gen. Sir George
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Collins, Lt-Col. Tim (RIR)
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colonels of regiments

proprietor-colonels
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&
n
,
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,
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,
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royalty and senior officers
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,
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colours and guidons
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n

Colville, Col.
(later
Maj.-Gen. Sir) Edward, Nile

campaign (official history)
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&
n

Combermere
see
Cotton

command styles
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commandos, Slim’s opinion of
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Commonwealth Brigade (27th; later redesignated
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th)
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,
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,
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communications

electric telegraph
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forward observation officers (FOOs)
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heliograph and semaphore
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,
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,
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n

radio
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,
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radio control of mobile force
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Communism, spread after Second World War
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,
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Communist subversion, East Malaysian Chinese
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Compton, James,
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rd earl of Northampton
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concentration camps, British in South Africa
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Concord, battle (1775)
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Confrontation (1962–66)
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,
(ii)

border crossing
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Conqueror
, HM submarine
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conscription
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demobilization
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,
(ii)

First World War
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,
(ii)

Second World War and beyond
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
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,
(v)

see also
recruitment

Contades, Louis Georges, Marquis de
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continental system
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Cope, Lt-Gen. Sir John
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,
(ii)

Copenhagen, battle (1807)
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Cordy-Simpson, Maj. John (13th/18th Hussars)
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n

Cornwallis, Charles,
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st marquess
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,
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,
(iv)

corps
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n
,
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Corunna, battle (1809)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Costello, Edward (95th Regt recruit)
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Cotton, Lt-Col. Sir Stapleton, Lord Combermere
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n

counter-insurgency

Aden
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Cyprus
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fire discipline
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force protection
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Iraq
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Kenya
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Malaya
(i)

minimum force
(i)
&n
,
(ii)

Petraeus/Keane new doctrine
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Craufurd, Maj.-Gen. Robert ‘Black Bob’
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,
(ii)

Creggan (Londonderry)
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Crimean War (1854–6)
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,
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,
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,
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Croats, irregulars
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Crocker, Gen. Sir John (RTR)
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n
,
(ii)

Crofton, Lt-Gen. Malby
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,
(ii)
n

Cromwell, Oliver
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,
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,
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,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Cromwell, Richard
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Cronje, (Boer) Gen. Piet
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Crossland, Maj. John (2 Para)
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Culloden, battle (1746)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Cummings, Driver Joe (TA)
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Curragh Incident
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,
(ii)

Curtis, Lt Philip, VC (Glosters/DCLI)
(i)

Cutts, Maj.-Gen. John ‘Salamander’
(i)

Cyprus

British sovereign base areas
(i)

counter-insurgency
(i)

Czechoslovakia, Communist takeover
(i)

D-Day, Normandy landings (1944)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n
,
(v)

Daily Mail
(i)

Daily Telegraph
(i)

Dalrymple, Lt-Gen. Sir Hew
(i)
,
(ii)

Dalyell, Lt-Gen. Tam
(i)
n

Danish army, in Helmand
(i)

Dannatt, Lt
(later
Gen. Sir) Richard
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Davies, Padre Sam (Glosters chaplain)
(i)
n

Davies, Sam, account of Dettingen battle
(i)

Dayton Agreement (1995), Bosnia
(i)

de Lancey, Sir William, QMG at Waterloo
(i)

de Wet, (Boer) Gen. Christian, guerrilla campaign
(i)

Deedes, William (Bill), Baron Deedes
(i)

deep manœuvre tactics
(i)

Defoe, Daniel
(i)
,
(ii)

Delhi, Indian Mutiny
(i)

demobilization
(i)
,
(ii)

Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein war (1863–4)
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Derby, Jacobite army turns back (1745)
(i)

D’Erlon, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, comte, Marshal
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,
(ii)
n

dervishes
(i)
&
n

Dettingen, battle (1743)
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,
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,
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,
(iv)

Devereux, Robert,
(i)
rd earl of Essex
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,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Devizes, Wiltshire Regt
(i)

Dhofar
(i)
n

Disraeli, Benjamin
(i)

diversionary operations (stratagems of evasion)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Gallipoli (1915)
(i)

divisions
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Douglas, Sir Charles (inspector-general of the forces)
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Douglas, Lord George, Les Royal Écossais (Royal Scots)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, ‘The Guards Came Through’
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n
,
(ii)

drill

duke of Cumberland and
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Dundas’ reforms
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,
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flintlock musket (platoon firing)
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,
(ii)
n

George II and
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marching
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&
n
,
(ii)

matchlock musket
(i)

training manuals
(i)

see also
infantry

Drummossie Moor
see
Culloden

du Muy, Lt-Gen. le chevalier, at Warburg
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Duffell, Lt
(later
Lt-Gen. Sir) Peter
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Dunbar, battle (1650)
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Dundas, Col. Sir David
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,
(ii)

Dundas, Henry,
(i)
st viscount Melville
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Dundee (Natal)
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Dunkirk, evacuation from (1940)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

positive aspects
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Dutch–Belgian troops, Waterloo (1815)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Dutch Republic

joins Second Grand Alliance
(i)

see also
Netherlands, the

Dutton, Maj.-Gen. Bryan
(i)
n

Dyaks, Indonesian Confrontation
(i)

Dykes, Lt-Col. Alfred (King’s Own)
(i)
n
,
(ii)

East Africa campaign (1941)
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East Germany
see
German Democratic Republic

East India Company (British)
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,
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,
(iii)