Armies

INDIAN ARMY IN BRITISH SERVICE

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3rd Bengal cavalry 1897 Officers of 1st Bengal Lancers(Skinner’s Horse) from l to r European Full Dress 1901, Marching Order 1907,Drill Order 1907 and European Undress 1907. A colour plate from the Almark publication “Skinner’s Horse” by Christopher Rothero. The British Indian Army was one of the strongest armed forces in nineteenth-century Asia. Its origins lay in the consolidation of…

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US Armored Divisions – Combat Operations

M24 Chaffee light tank of US Army 1st Armored Division in Bologna, Italy, late-1944. M26 Pershing A US 3rd Armored Division M10 tank destroyer negotiates a narrow alley in St Fromon. 9th Armored Division, 1st U.S. Army move through Engers, Germany, 1945. The Army fielded a total of sixteen armored…

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The Ottoman Army in the Classical Age

TimarlĂ˝ Sipahis By VEYSEL ŞİMĹžEK In the classical age, a medieval cavalry arm, the TimarlĂ˝ Sipahis (timariot cavalry) along with the permanent salaried troops, formed the backbone of the Ottoman field army. Various auxiliary detachments as well as the forces of vassal principalities could also be added to regular army.…

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CONTINENTAL ARMY

Victory in defeat. In 1781, Greene’s force of 4,400 Continentals and militia took on the advancing Cornwallis at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. The British had only 1,900 men, but most were seasoned regulars. The battle was bitter, with furious hand-to-hand fighting. Cornwallis held the field but suffered more than…

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3rd Armored Division (United States)

The first elements of the 3rd Armored in France saw combat on 29 June, with the division as a whole beginning combat operations on 9 July 1944. During this time, it was under the command of VII Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps for some time, and assigned to the First…

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British Seven Years’ War in Germany

The 12th (Suffolk Regiment) at the Battle of Minden. 1st August 1759 by Brian Palmer. The Battle of Minden, 1st August 1759 by David Rowlands. Initially, in large part due to the political sensitivity of appearing to use British resources to assist the unpopular Electorate of Hanover, the British government…

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The Vatican Swiss Guard

The Swiss constitution of 1874 prohibited all military capitulations and the recruitment of Swiss forces by foreign powers with one exception: the Swiss Guard of the papacy. While Swiss soldiers had been used by the popes since the late 14th century, it was not until the pontificate of JULIUS II…

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CARTHAGINIAN ARMIES

Hannibal and his staff at the battle of Zama – art by Giuseppe Rava The…

The Hanoverian Army at Waterloo

The Hanoverian contingent in Wellington’s army was integrated fully into the British divisional structure; it…

Renaissance Warfare I

As more centralized governments developed during the Later Middle Ages (1000-1500), significant changes took place…

The Mauryan Empire Military

Chandragupta governed a true monarchical imperial state. The king ruled with the help of a…