Category: History - British
HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR A companion volume to "How the War Began," telling how the world faced. Armageddon and how the British Army answered the call to arms. By J. M. KENNEDY
HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR A companion volume to "How the War Began," telling how the world faced. Armageddon and how the British Army answered the call to arms. By J. M. KENNEDY
2. Part 2The 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment derived their nickname from a peculiar royal mistake. At the battle of Dettingen, King George II., mistaking them for the "3rd Buff...
3. Part 3Apart, and not yet apart, from their glorious traditions of battle, the Greys have a peculiar romance centring round one of their number, who fought for long years in their mids...
4. Part 4Later, in 1632, Hepburn, who was somewhat a soldier of fortune, found himself on his way to aid the King of France. In 1634 he led his regiments against the Austrians and Spania...
5. Part 5It was at Fontenoy that the Black Watch first met a foreign foe, and their dealings with that foe were an emphatic earnest of their future honours. The fortune of war was not on...
6. Part 6At another stage of the battle, when the Duke of Brunswick's hussars were in flight before the red (Polish) lancers and French light infantry, Wellington, involved in the charge...
7. Part 7BADGES.--A Boar's Head within a wreath of myrtle. A Cat within a wreath of broom, all over the label as represented in the arms of the Princess Louise, and surmounted with H.R.H...
8. Part 8"We were now once more in possession of the place, but our loss, as well as that of the French, had been very great. In particular places of the village, where a stand had been...