The Making Of The British Army (98 page)

Company officers
(i)
,
(ii)
&
n

European regiments
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Indian Mutiny (1857–9)
(i)
,
(ii)

native troops (sepoys)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

East Indies, Portuguese
(i)

Eden, Anthony
(i)
,
(ii)

Edgehill, battle (1642)
(i)

Edinburgh, James Edward Stuart proclaimed king
(i)

Egan, Fr Bernard (RC chaplain 2 Para)
(i)
,
(ii)
n

Egypt

Aboukir and Alexandria (1801)
(i)

Anglo-French condominium
(i)

Egyptian army, with Kitchener (1896)
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Eisenhower, US Gen. Dwight D.
(i)

on British paratroops at Arnhem
(i)

disagreement with Montgomery
(i)

rules out push for Berlin
(i)
n

Elandslaagte, battle (1899)
(i)

Elector of Bavaria
(i)
,
(ii)

Elizabeth II, Queen, interest in army matters
(i)
n
,
(ii)

Elphinstone, Maj.-Gen. William
(i)
,
(ii)
n
Emsdorff, battle (1760)
(iii)

Endurance
, HMS
(i)

enfiladed positions, Dettingen
(i)
&n
,
(ii)

engineers
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

balloon school
(i)
,
(ii)

Experimental Mobile Force and
(i)

mine clearance
(i)
,
(ii)

as proportion of army (1918)
(i)

England

Act of Settlement (1701)
(i)
,
(ii)

Act of Union with Scotland (1707)
(i)

Bill of Rights (1689)
(i)

Commonwealth period
(i)

conspiracy to secure Protestant succession
(i)

monarch as commander-in-chief
(i)

Mutiny Acts
(i)

Restoration of monarchy (1660)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

support for Jacobites
(i)

wars
see under
n
ames
of wars

see also
Civil Service; Britain; Parliament

EOKA
(i)

Erasmus, (Boer) Gen. Hans
(i)

escalades
(i)

Esher, Reginald Brett,
(i)
nd viscount
(ii)

Essex, earl of
see
Devereux, Robert

Eugene of Savoy, Prince
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

European Union (EU), in Bosnia
(i)

Evelyn, John
(i)

Experimental Mobile Force (EMF)
(i)
,
(ii)

Fairfax, Sir Thomas
(i)

Falaise Pocket (1944)
(i)

Falkenhayn, Gen. Erich von
(i)

Falkirk, battle (1746)
(i)
,
(ii)

Falklands War (1982)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

mine clearance
(i)

Northern Ireland effect
(i)

Falls Road (Belfast)
(i)

Fantom, Carlo
(i)

Farrar-Hockley, Capt
(later
Gen. Sir) Anthony (Glosters)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Farrar-Hockley, Maj. Dair (2 Para)
(i)

Farrell, Maj. Ben (Irish Guards)
(i)

Fauconberg, Viscount
(i)

Fenimore Cooper, James,
The Last of the Mohicans
(i)
,
(ii)

Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, assassination
(i)
,
(ii)

Ferguson, Brig. Bernard,
Beyond the Chindwin
(i)
n
Ferguson, Maj.-Gen. James
(ii)

Feversham, Louis de Duras,
(i)
nd earl
(ii)

Fijian troops
(i)

Finnegan, (Surgeon) Brig. Timothy,
The British
Army Review
, Spring 2008
(i)
n

fire discipline
(i)

Fire of London (1666)
(i)

firearms

Baker rifle
(i)
&n
,
(ii)

Enfield rifled musket
(i)

flintlock
fusil
musket
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Gatling gun
(i)
,
(ii)

Lee-Enfield SMLE rifle
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Lee-Metford rifle
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Martini-Henry rifle
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

matchlock muskets
(i)

Mauser rifles
(i)
,
(ii)

Maxim machine gun
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Minié rifle
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Remington rifle
(i)

rifles
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

SA80 (self-loading rifle)
(i)

SLR (self-loading rifle)
(i)

Snider-Enfield rifle
(i)

Vickers machine gun
(i)
n

First World War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

allied counter-offensive (1918)
(i)
,
(ii)

BEF (‘Old Contemptibles’)
(i)
,
(ii)

mobilization of imperial forces
(i)

preparation and deployment
(i)

‘race for the sea’
(i)

see also
individual battles

Fishguard (1797)
(i)
n

FitzClarence, Brig. Charles, VC
(i)

Flanagan, Lt Stephen (KORBR)
(i)

Flanders, expeditions (1793–4, 1799)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Fletcher, Lt-Col. Richard (RE)
(i)

Flodden, battle (1513)
(i)

Foch, Gen.
(later
Marshal) Ferdinand
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Fontenoy, battle (1745)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

force

doctrine of overwhelming
(i)
n
,
(ii)

doctrine of minimum
(i)
&
n
,
(ii)

Forster, Thomas (Jacobite squire)
(i)

Fort Duquesne, Braddock’s attempt
(i)

Fort George (Inverness)
(i)
,
(ii)

Fort Ticonderoga
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Fort William Henry, capture by French (1757)
(i)

Fortescue, Sir John
(i)
,
(ii)

Forth, earl of, at Edgehill (1642)
(i)

The Four Feathers
(film, 1972)
(i)

Fox, Charles James
(i)

Fox, Robert,
Eyewitness Falklands
(i)

fox-hunting
(i)
&
n

France

alliance with Americans (1777)
(i)

alliance with Austria (1756)
(i)

Boer War views
(i)

conflict in North America
(i)

‘Entente Cordiale’ (1904)
(i)

Louis XIV’s wars
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Maginot Line
(i)

North American territories
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Revolutionary
(i)
,
(ii)

strategy for war (1914)
(i)

support for Charles Edward Stuart
(i)
,
(ii)

Third Anglo-Dutch War
(i)

see also
French army

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n

Franklin, Benjamin
(i)
,
(ii)

Fraser, Lt-Gen. Alexander
(i)

Fraser, Gen. Sir David (XXX Corps)
(i)
,
(ii)

And We Shall Shock Them
(i)
&n,
(ii)
n
,
(iii)

Fraser, Brig.-Gen. Simon
(i)

Frederick William I, king of Prussia
(i)

Frederick II (the Great), king of Prussia
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)