Timeline of the British Army

This [Timeline covers the main wars, battles and engagements and related issues for the English and British Army, from 1537 to the present.[1][2][3][4][5][6] See also Timeline of British diplomatic history.

1500–1599

The Buffs (1572)

Formed from London's urban militia to support the Protestants in Holland, where they remained until the outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch war in 1665, at which point they were disbanded for refusing the oath of loyalty to the Dutch States General. They fled to England and reformed as 'The Holland Regiment' in the British Army. The unit is now part of the Princess Of Wales's Royal Regiment.

1600–1699

1700–1799

1800-1898

1899–1918

Second Boer War

First World War

1918–1939

1939–1945

1945–1990

1958 - July - 16 Independent Parachute Brigade Group (less 3 Para), air-landed in Amman, Jordan from Cyprus.

1990–present

Notes

  1. See John William Fortescue, History of the British Army (13 vol, 1899-1930), which tells the story to 1870.
  2. David G. Chandler and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds. The Oxford illustrated history of the British army (Oxford UP, 1994)
  3. David G. Chandler, The Oxford history of the British army. (Oxford UP, 2003).
  4. Eric William Sheppard, A short history of the British army. (Constable, 1950).
  5. Robert Money Barnes, A history of the regiments & uniforms of the British Army (London: Seeley Service, 1950).
  6. Peter Young and James Philip Lawford, History of the British Army (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970).
  7. Basil Williams and C.H. Stuart, The Whig Supremacy 1714-1760 (1965) pp 231-70
  8. Oliver Warner, With Wolfe to Quebec: the path to glory (1972).
  9. See Jeremy Black, "Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. (Fall 1996), Vol. 74 Issue 299, pp 145-154. online 90-minute video lecture given at Ohio State in 2006; requires Real Player
  10. Richard M. Ketchum, Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (1999).
  11. Barnet Schecter, The battle for New York: The city at the heart of the American Revolution (2003).
  12. Bruce Mowday, September 11, 1777: Washington's Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia (White Mane Pub, 2002).
  13. Michael O. Logusz, With Musket and Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777 (Casemate Publishers, 2010).
  14. Jerome A. Greene, The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 (Casemate Publishers, 2009).
  15. Nikolas Gardner, Trial by fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 (2003).
  16. Ian Beckett, Ypres: The First Battle 1914 (Routledge, 2013).
  17. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and Its Predecessors, Heavy Branch, Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps, and Royal Tank Corps, 1914-1945 (1959).
  18. Robert Woollcombe, The First Tank Battle: Cambrai 1917 (Arthur Barker, 1967).
  19. Abigail Jacobson, From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (2011).
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