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 Encyclopedia: British Army
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army.
British Army garrison is provided by an indigenous regiment, the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, which has been on the Army regular establishment since the last British regiment left in 1991.
The British Army were deployed to Sierra Leone, a former British colony, in 1999 to aid the government in quelling violent uprisings by militiamen, under United Nations resolutions.
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 World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
British action opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamia campaigns, though initially the Turks were successful in repelling enemy incursion.
Further to the west in Palestine, initial British failures were overcome with Jerusalem being captured in December 1917 and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under Edmund Allenby going on to break the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Megiddo (September 1918).
As the 18th army advanced, the soldiers became extremely fatigued and hunger-struck—so much so that horses that should have been used on the forthcoming Amiens assault were killed for their meat.
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 World War I - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On October 26, they launched a crushing offensive that resulted in the victory of Kobarid (Caporetto): the Italian army was initially routed, but after retreating more than 100 km, it was able to reorganize and hold ground on the Piave river.
As the 18th army advanced the soldiers became extremely fatigued and hunger-struck- so much so that horses that should have been used on the forthcoming Amies assault were killed for their meat.
For every shell that fell on the fifth army line on the 21st of March 1918, a German had fallen in the fields of France and Belgium during the Spring Offensive.
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 British Army - ARRSEpedia
The British were quick to recognise and respect the fighting qualities and potential loyalty of such soldiers, many with their own long histories as warrior peoples.
The Army had learned from the harsh lessons taught to it during the Boer War and reforms in training had been introduced which meant that, man-for-man, the British soldiers of 1914 were probably the best in Europe.
Believing that the French Fifth Army and the BEF were beaten, von Kluck decided to wheel east rather than west of Paris, thus exposing his flank to a counter-attack which duly took place on 5 September.
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 World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Early explanations, prominent in the 1920s and 1930s, stressed the official version of responsibility as ennumerated in the Treaty of Versailles and Treaty of Trianon, that Germany and her allies were solely responsible for the war.
The Serb army, which was coming up from the south of the country, met the Austrian army at the Battle of Cer on August 12, 1914.
British and French trenches were defeated using novel infiltration tactics.
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 Encyclopedia article on World War I [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Many different hypotheses have been proposed to explain who is to blame for the outbreak of the First World War.
The Serb army, which was coming up from the south of the country, met the Austrian army at Cer on August 12 1914.
The British Army in the Great War (http://www.1914-1918.net/)
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