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	British First Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British First Army was formed on 26 December 1914 when the corps of the British Expeditionary Force were divided into the First Army under Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig and the Second Army (Horace Smith-Dorrien).
		The First Army was formed to command the land forces of in Operation Torch, the assault landings in Morocco and Algeria on 8 November 1942, during World War II.
		First Army formally came into being on 1 January 1943 with the redesignation of the Eastern Task Force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_First_Army (397 words)

	Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A particular army is named or numbered to distinguish it from military land forces in general—for example, The U.S. First Army and The Army of Northern Virginia.
		Armies (as well as army groups, and theaters) are large formations which vary significantly between armed forces in size, composition, and scope of responsibility.
		In peacetime a Soviet army was usually subordinate to a military district.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Army (358 words)

	Encyclopedia: British Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The British Army fought American colonists in the American Revolutionary War; Irish rebels in the 1798 rebellion; the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars; Indian princely forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Indian Mutiny; the Boers in the Boer Wars; and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-Army (8799 words)

	British Army
		The British Army is the land armed forces of the United Kingdom.
		The British Army did not exist as a separate entity before the Act of Union of 1707 which united England and Scotland, but its origins date back to the aftermath of the English Civil War.
		Before the Civil War, the army was raised as required by the King, who would warrant gentlemen to raise companies, this being a direct throwback to the feudal concept of fief where a lord had to raise a certain quota of knights, men at arms and yeomanry.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/br/british_army.html (1371 words)

	British Army -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military.
		The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916 by renaming the British Reserve Army of General Sir Hubert Gough and as such it fought the Battle of the Ancre which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme.
		The failure of the Fifth Army to withstand the German advance led to Gough's dismissal and the disbanding of the broken army.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-army.html (1466 words)

	Disaster At Kasserine
		General Anderson’s First British Army was deployed in the north, the French XIX Corps in the center and General Fredenhalls’s II U.S. Corps.
		A makeshift British task force positioned on one flank of the mile wide Kasserine Pass was responsible for delaying the Germans long enough for important Allied regroupings to the rear.
		British General Sir Keith Anderson, First Army commander in northern Tunisia, was put in charge of the entire front only three weeks before the German assult.
	sixthscalebattle.com /about.html (1209 words)

	Battle of Arras (1917) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was fought by the British (First Army under Allenby, Third Army under Horne, Fifth Army under Gough) under the supreme command of General Haig against the heavily fortified line held by German Sixth and Second Armies.
		After a massive artillery bombardment, British managed to advance in heavy fighting for up to 4.5 miles in some places—one of the largest gains since the start of the trench warfare.
		A total of 200 Mark IV tanks were promised to have been ready for this offensive, but as not a single one had in fact been produced about 45 Mark II training tanks were used, their boiler plate sponsons replaced by armoured ones taken from Mark I wrecks.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_Arras_(1917) (230 words)

	British Army: 1939-45
		After the fall of France in June, 1940, the British Army was mainly used to protect the British Empire.
		British Army units also took part in the Allied invasions of Sicily, Italy and France.
		British military leaders are reluctant to accept heavy losses unless the scales of victory are weighted in their favour.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWbritishA.htm (929 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in the Desert - 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Eighth Army occupies Medenine in southern Tunisia.
		The British First and Eighth Army's, the U.S. 2nd Corps and Free French forces begin the final offensive to destroy the axis bridgehead in Tunisia.
		British forces break through the defences of the 5th Panzerarmee to the South of Tunis.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-the-desert/war-in-the-desert-index-1943.htm (838 words)

	British 1st Army Group Royal Artillery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It operated with V Corps, under First Army.
		In October of that year it entered the Italian campaign, operating with V Corps again, only this time under Eighth Army.
		The AGRA transferred temporarily to X Corps in February 1945, then returning to V Corps for the rest of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_1st_Army_Group_Royal_Artillery (120 words)

	The British Burn Washington, 1814
		As the British army of approximately 4,000 approached, the majority of Washington residents fled the city.
		A messenger was dispatched to the White House to warn First Lady Dolly Madison of the impeding arrival of the British.
		having first put to the sword all who were found in the house from which the shots were fired, and reduced it to ashes, they proceeded, without 'a moment's delay, to burn and destroy everything in the most distant degree connected with government.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /washingtonsack.htm (1048 words)

	The British Army in the First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		It is the only time in the Army’s history that it has beaten the main body of a major European enemy in the main theatre of operations.
		General Sir Douglas Haig’s plan was that while Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Allenby’s 3rd British Army made a diversionary attack in the north and the 6th French Army attacked in the south, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Rawlinson’s 4th British Army would break through in the centre.
	www.national-army-museum.ac.uk /pages/first-world-war.html (2154 words)

	British Army O.C.C.
		The British army is based on regiments with each regiment general coming from a specific region of England or her territories.
		The British Army failed to prevent the Germans from invading Norway, was defeated in France, and was decimated in the Far East by Japan when they entered the war.
		The British Army had to fight to retake the Falklands from Argentina and fought beside the United States in Desert Storm and in Afghanistan.
	www.kitsune.addr.com /Rifts/Rifts-OCCs/British_Army_OCC.htm (1312 words)

	British Army
		Also, the Army is increasing in size - 3,300 Regular troops are being added to the Army’s numbers, particularly to enhance those trades, such as signals, engineer, medical and logistic troops which are most heavily committed on operations, and the Territorial Army is being modernised.
		The British army is to receive new equipment over the next decade worth in excess of £15 billion to equip it for rapid deployment missions around the world.
		The latest Lynx in UK Army Air Corps service is the AH Mk 9, easily identifiable by its tricycle undercarriage, this version is designed as a Light Battlefield Helicopter and is an integral part of the hard hitting new 16th Air Assault Brigade.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/british_army.htm (2921 words)

	deseretnews.com \| British army stepping into sneaker market
		LONDON — The British army is going into battle — for a slice of the sneaker market.
		British military gear has made news in recent years for its sometimes poor quality.
		The army said its involvement in the development of the shoe hadn't affected its core activities.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595099573,00.html (573 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Henry Horne
		With the outbreak of war in August 1914 Horne, with the rank of Brigadier-General, was handed command of an artillery brigade attached to Douglas Haig's I Corps and despatched to France.
		Horne was the sole artillery officer of the war to be given command of a British field army.
		Horne's army successes included Vimy Ridge in April 1917, at Arras on 28 March 1918 and during actions fought on the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) left flank during the summer of 1918.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/horne.htm (317 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three years ago, the British Army formed an ethnic recruiting team to counteract the notion that people of color were not welcome in the military, Dick-Peter said.
		A few high-profile racial incidents in the army have helped spur the notion that multiethnic individuals were not welcome in the military, according to Dick-Peter.
		Last year, the British Army had a target number of 4 percent multiethnic recruitment; it exceeded that goal and reached 4.5 percent.
	www.gvnews.net /demo/html/GlobalviewsAlert/alert16.html (548 words)

	British First Army -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The First Army suffered reverses at (Click link for more info and facts about Vimy Ridge) Vimy Ridge in May 1916 and at Fromelles the following month.
		After the landings, Anderson's forces rushed east in a bid to capture the (A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956) Tunisian shoreline before German forces could reach there in large numbers.
		The victory was won by mid-1943 in a surrender that, in numbers captured at least, equalled (A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43) Stalingrad.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/british_first_army.htm (370 words)

	Army Home Page
		The Army Presentation Team would like to hear from members of the public who would like an invitation to its hi-tech roadshow.
		Call 01276 417000 or e-mail your name and address to the Army Presentation Team at apt.mod@btinternet.com with the particular event you are interested in attending.
		The British Army is a force for good, carrying out essential work both in the UK and overseas.
	www.army.mod.uk (407 words)

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		The British were the soft underbelly of the American occupation, the nice guys who didn't wear helmets and patrolled on PC Plod bicycles through the souks of Basra.
		We, the British, always made a distinction between us and them - the "them" being the Americans - but failed to grasp that in Baghdad, the Iraqis did not recognise the difference.
		General Sir Stanley Maude proclaimed that his British invasion force had come to "liberate" the people of Iraq - not to conquer them - but within three years, his troops had been gunned down every bit as cruelly as the young British soldiers yesterday.
	www.apomie.com /fisk9.htm (478 words)

	Army organisation
		If you are interested in a particular unit, you can follow it to understand where it fitted into the British Army's order of battle, and see which battles it fought.
		Armies were under the command of the GHQ.
		Corps (sometimes confusingly called Army Corps) were under the command of the Army.
	www.1914-1918.net /menu_army.htm (393 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Next month, she begins a six-month tour of duty in Iraq, where the British Army is the second-largest military contingent among the coalition forces occupying the country.
		Hulme does not think her role as a priest preaching peace is compromised by being a captain in an army whose job is sometimes to kill: "I, like any Christian, was very unhappy at the beginning of the [Iraq] conflict that there were so many deaths on all sides.
		But she says the British are strict on applying regulations against sexual harassment or discrimination and that people who do complain are treated seriously.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/10/29102003175105.asp (1175 words)

	First British Sikh Army - 1846
		At the close of the First Sikh War in 1846 it was decided to conciliate the men of the defeated "Khalsa Army" and to enlist Sikhs in the Honourable East India Company's service.
		Colonel J. Brasyer, C.B. A British officer, Ensign J. Brasyer, was lent to Sir Henry Laurence, Civil Commissioner of the Punjab, to assist in fostering friendship with the Sikhs and in obtaining Sikh recruits.
		Captain Watt and his other British officers could not speak a word of Punjabi; so he applied for Ensign Brasyer to be posted to his regiment.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /events/fbsa.htm (851 words)

	Scotsman.com News - British armed forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in Iraq were expected to join Labour MP Clare Short today as she delivers a letter to Downing Street calling for the Government to get parliamentary approval before war can be declared.
		The army launched a £2 million drive to recruit officers yesterday, amid fears antipathy to the...
		THE first Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh chaplains to the armed forces have been appointed, the...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1034 (457 words)

	British Army in the First World War
		In the early part of the 20th century, the British Army was a fairly small professional body of volunteer regular soldiers.
		After the Boer War, the British war minister, Richard Haldane, created the British Expeditionary Army, in case it was necessary to take part in a foreign war.
		The first was that an obsession for ground, as such, grew up, and permeated the minds of all the junior formations.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWbritain.htm (1251 words)

	Articles - British 21st Army Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, when sufficient American forces had landed, their own 12th Army Group was activated, under General Omar Bradley, and 21st Army Group was left with British Second Army and Canadian First Army.
		Canadian First Army wheeled left and liberated northern Holland, British Second Army occupied much of north-west Germany and liberated Denmark, and US Ninth Army helped to encircle the remaining German forces in the Ruhr pocket and on 4 April reverted to Bradley's 12th Army Group.
		It was redesignated the British Army of the Rhine on 25 August 1945, and would eventually form the nucleus of the British forces stationed in Germany throughout the Cold War.
	gaple.com /articles/British_21st_Army_Group?... (805 words)

	British Army Records of the First World War
		All commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, men and women who served overseas with the British Army during the Great War were entitled to medals for their service.
		The records relating to the issued of the medals are a good starting point in any search, and can provide important and useful information into their service.
		Over 140'000 Gallantry awards were granted to members of the British army during the war.
	www.btinternet.com /~lawrence.woodcock/army_1418.htm (958 words)

	Why did the Germans lose the war in 1918?
		the 21st August the British Third Army attacked between Arras and Albert, though success was limited at first due to the caution exercised by the Third Army.
		Soon, however, the attack was joined by the British Fourth Army; the Somme battlefield was taken within the matter of a weekend.
		Five days later it was the British First Army that attacked German positions on the River Scarpe.
	www.coursework.info /i/16130.html (562 words)

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