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SUPPLEMENT: A house in Addiscombe became the final home for a much-travelled old soldier, who fought in Wellington’s armies ...
On Thursday, the British Government signed a treaty with Mauritius which, if ratified by Parliament, will grant Mauritius the ...
From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.
The use of military force to secure political and diplomatic objectives has been commonplace throughout history, but gunboat ...
Portraits of 11 Gurkha soldiers who died in the Afghanistan conflict were officially handed over to their families at a solemn ceremony held at the Gurkha Memorial Museum in Pokhara on Saturday. The ...
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British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed Energy Weapon. The British Army has completed the UK’s largest counter ...
The British military has developed a drone mine-clearing plow in order to clear enemy minefields—a device for which there will be a clear need in the future of warfare. Creatively called the ...
But how was it that an officer from a distinguished military family who had served with distinction in the British Army came ... Catherine died in 1815. Although Nelson, who in 1803 was a famed ...
The British Army has just 70,000 active troops today - the smallest since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. De Bretton Gordon added: "What is important is to modernise our military. Make sure that ...
The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass, with reservist unit training withering. With near-peer threats and stiff economic challenges, ...
During the 19th Century around 40% of the British Army was made up of soldiers from ... a significant role at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where Corporal James Graham from Co Monaghan was ...