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	NAMED CAMPAIGNS - WORLD WAR I
		The British maintained strong pressure on their front throughout the year; but British attacks on the Messines Ridge (7 June), at Ypres (31 July), and at Cambrai (20 November) failed in their main objective—the capture of German submarine bases—and took a severe toll of British fighting strength.
		The British Fourth Army, including the American 33d and 80th Divisions, struck the northwestern edge of the salient in coordination with a thrust by the French First Army from the southwest.
		The American II Corps (27th and 30th Divisions), forming part of the British Fourth Army, attacked the German defenses along the line of the Cambrai-St. Quentin Canal, capturing heavily fortified Bony and Bellicourt on the 29th.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/wicmp.htm (4867 words)

	The British Army - Chapter One
		An examination of the location of the British army in 1775 reveals the fact that while small detachments of it were to be found in many distant quarters of the globe, the bulk of it was distributed unequally among three different countries.
		The British regular fought the embattled farmers of America with the "Brown Bess." This was a smoothbore flintlock musket with a priming pan, three feet eight inches long in the barrel, and weighing fourteen pounds.
		When one surveys as a whole the conduct of the British army in the American Revolution, comparing its deportment with that of European armies in the eighteenth century, he must come fairly to the conclusion that The forces of George III manifested unusual respect for the persons and property of noncombatants.
	www.americanrevolution.org /britisharmy1.html (8260 words)

	SECTION VI
		At that time, enemy forces operating in Flanders comprised a group of armies which it was known were to attack to the north part of the Lys salient, in the vicinity of Mount Kemmel, for the purpose of driving through to the sea, gaining the channel ports, and cutting the allied army in two.
		It was transferred from the British Second Army to the British Third Army; and on September 4-5 entrained for an area near Doullens.
		The British 133d Field Ambulance, which reported for duty with the division on August 20, 1918, operated the divisional rest station at Arneke until, on September 1, it was relieved from this duty, then taking over the divisional rest station at Hilhoek from the British 16th Field Ambulance of the 6th Division.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwi/fieldoperations/chapter37.htm (8875 words)

	British Fourth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fourth Army was formed on 5 February 1916 under the command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson to carry out the main British contribution to the Battle of the Somme.
		The plan for the Fourth Army during the 1917 Flanders offensive (that became the Third Battle of Ypres) was to mount an amphibious invasion of the Belgian coast once a breakthrough had been achieved.
		In World War II, no British Fourth Army actually took the field, but as part of the deception plan, Operation Fortitude, the Germans were encouraged to believe that Fourth Army existed with its headquarters in Edinburgh Castle, and was preparing to invade Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Fourth_Army (300 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Although in actuality British forces comprised by far the bulk of the offensive forces, Joffre and Haig originally intended for the attack to be a predominantly French offensive.
		Meanwhile to the north the rest of Fourth Army, in addition to 1 Corps of General Allenby’s Third Army, attempted a complete breakthrough, with cavalry standing by to fully exploit the resultant gap in the German lines.
		Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	UT DISCOVERY MAGAZINE
		British and American intelligence specialists deceived the Germans with an elaborate deception plan, codenamed Fortitude, causing them to mistake the Normandy invasion for an Allied stratagem to draw their forces from the Pas de Calais region.
		On September 10, 1944, when Allied armies had liberated most of France and Belgium and were poised to enter the Fatherland, the German high command alerted its top generals by radio signal that a new American army of at least 100,000 troops was forming in England and would soon move to the continent.
		Bernard Montgomery, the British general who commanded the ground forces during the invasion, worried that the German army usually met an attack with a counter-attack and that powerful units of the German army, particularly the 21st Panzer (armored) Division, were only a few miles from the landing beaches.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/discovery/disc1997v14n2/disc-deception.html (4678 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 2002
		The army was often crudely organized and led, inadequately armed, poorly trained, meagerly paid, and badly fed. Such an army was hardly capable of standing firm in the face of a determined foe.
		In such a socio-political environment, the state armies were faced with two major challenges: creating a national loyalty among the soldiers that would surpass their tribal allegiance, and providing the military units with the skills to fight effectively in both counterinsurgencies and conventional wars.
		At the death of the Amir the regular army consisted of 80 infantry battalions, 40 cavalry regiments, 100 artillery batteries, and 4,000 household troops.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/02autumn/jalali.htm (6643 words)

	The Battle of Amiens
		Henry Rawlinson, in command of Fourth Army, chose to employ nine Divisions supported by 400 tanks in the initial assault.
		Behind the Fourth Army front, immense preparations were made on the lines of communication, with new railways, dumps, water supplies and many other preparations being made.
		Just before the battle, out-of-touch British CIGS Henry Wilson issued a memorandum on "British Military Policy 1918-1919", in which he suggested conserving forces for an assault to begin on 1 July 1919.
	www.1914-1918.net /bat26.htm (2040 words)

	Maps
		British and French positions before Bethune at the time of the German attacks on Givenchy and Cuinchy, January 25, 1915.
		Battle of Loos, the battle lines of the 1st British Army at daybreak and at nightfall on September 25, 1915.
		British line in Artois in the spring of 1916 after the relief of the French army south of Loos.
	www.1914-1918.net /maps.htm (677 words)

	Part I
		The figures for both armies are for the campaigns of 1944 and 1945, during which the case fatality rate was lower than it was in the early years of the war.
		The British also had excellent equipment for thoracic surgery, which was looked upon with envy by U.S. chest surgeons in the early days of the war, before their own equipment reached the optimum quantitative and qualitative levels later attained.
		The British observed that rifle bullets and small pieces of shell lodged in the lung and pleural cavity seldom caused any disability and that, in the absence of infection, their presence did not delay the return of the soldier to full duty.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/thoracicsurgeryvolI/chapter1.htm (18271 words)

	111069 Pioneer W.J. Coaley, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was posted to the 2nd Labour Battalion, R.E., a unit attached to the British Fourth Army in France and Flanders.
		Coaley's unit first saw action with the Fourth Army at Pozieres from the 23rd of July to the 3rd of September 1916 and at Flers-Courcelette from the 15th to the 22nd of September 1915.
		The battalion was subsequently assigned to the British Fifth Army and saw action at Bullecourt between the 3rd and 17th of May 1917.
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	World War I - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		British Empire action opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamian campaigns, though initially the Turks were successful in repelling enemy incursion.
		Further to the west in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, 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).
		On August 8, 1918, the predicted counter-offensive occurred with III Corps Fourth British Army on the left, the First French Army on the right, and the Canadian and Australian Corps spearheading the offensive in the centre.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10267 (6676 words)

	World War One
		After a brief return to the rear for further training, the division relieved the British 33rd Division in the front line of the Canal Sector from the vicinity of Elzenwalle to the railroad southeast of Transport Fme, on the nights of August 16 and 17.
		On the nights of September 3, September 4, and September 5, the division was relieved by the British 35th Division, and on September 4, the command passed.
		The 30th Division was relieved by the British First Division on the night of October 19 and 20, and moved, October 20-23 to the vicinity of Tincourt-Boucly and Roisel.
	home.nc.rr.com /oldhickory/page3.htm (1061 words)

	British Expeditionary Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British army sent to France and Belgium in World War I and British Forces in Europe from 1939–1940 during World War II.
		The term "British Expeditionary Force" strictly refers only to the forces present in France prior to the end of the First Battle of Ypres, November 22, 1914; the surviving members of these forces were later awarded the Mons Star.
		An alternative endpoint of the BEF was December 26, 1914, when it was divided into the First and Second Armies (a third, fourth and fifth being created later in the war).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force (728 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Confessions of a Francophile
		It was Easter 1963 and she was the daughter or maybe the niece, I forget which, of a policeman in the village of Hennebont near the naval port of Lorient in Brittany.
		For the British, the words Britain and Europe are all too often used as opposites.
		Marshal Foch was a hero to the British in the first war as much as de Gaulle was an irritant in the second.
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		The division became part of the American II Corps and subsequently attached to the British Army in northern France.
		In June of 1918, the division began training with the British Army and exchanged their weaponry for British issues.
		On September 20, the 30th Division arrived in the Gouy-Nauroy sector, reassigned to the British Fourth Army the division prepared for participation in the Somme Offensive of 1918.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/r/crichard.html (643 words)

	wwi3
		The British Army, which bore most of the attack, lost 160,000 casualties in 16 days, the French lost 77,000.
		He telegraphed the British government in London to insist that ‘General Foch be given supreme control [because] I knew that Foch was a man of great courage’ – Haig gave away his command to save the war.
		Blaming Haig the individual for the failings of the British war effort is putting too much of a burden of guilt on one man. Haig was the product of his time, of his upbringing, education, training and previous, military experience.
	www.johndclare.net /wwi3.htm (2103 words)

	1/19 Royal New South Wales Regiment
		At the end of the war it was decided to incorporate the Battalions of the AIF within existing regiments forming the permanent establishment of the Australian Army, as 1st (Inactive) Battalion in each case.
		This action was described by the German commander, Ludendorff, as "the fl day of the German Army" and on this day and the days that followed as the German Army retreated fighting tenaciously for every position, 19th Battalion played an effective part.
		General Rawlinson, commanding the British Fourth Army, described this as the "finest single feat of the war".
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-army-today/state-regts/rnswr-1-19.htm (2834 words)

	THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT - Timebase 1916
		Overall, the British have 37 capital ships: 28 dreadnoughts and 9 battle cruisers; the Germans had 27: 16 dreadnoughts, 6 older battleships, and 5 battle cruisers.
		By nightfall the British have lost about 60,000 men, 19,000 of them dead -- the greatest single, 1-day loss in the history of the British army.
		British tanks, secretly shipped to the front and used in combat for the first time, spearhead the attack.
	www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/1916tbse.htm (2762 words)

	The British Army - Chapter 7-5
		The horses for the five British battalions of the line, in which two field officers' companies are included.
		The horses for the five British battalions of the line, upon calculation, amount to.
		In 1779 the Pontoon Train was ordered to be completed which with the arrival of the 76th, 80th, 82nd and 84th Regiments from Europe, the Troops from Rhode Island, and the Flank Companies from Halifax as also the increase of the Provincial Corps, caused an additional number of Horses to be employed that year.
	www.americanrevolution.org /britisharmy7e.html (698 words)

	The world's top i anzac corps websites
		The I Anzac Corps was an Australian and New Zealand World War I army corps formed in Egypt in February 1916 as part of the reorganization of the Australian Imperial Force following the evacuation of Gallipoli in November 1915.
		In France the I Anzac Corps was attached to the British Second Army, positioned on the relatively quiet sector south of Ypres.
		The corps went into the line south of Armentières;, taking over from the British III Corps which was moving to the British Fourth Army in preparation for the Somme Offensive.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/i_anzac_corps (371 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly
		Morgan, Matthew J. Army Recruiting and the Civil-Military Gap.” Summer 2001.
		"Army Doctrine and Modern War: Notes Toward a New Edition of FM 100-5." Spring 1997.
		Chilcoat, Richard A. The `Fourth' Army War College: Preparing Strategic Leaders for the Next Century." Winter 1995-96.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/a-index.htm (6960 words)

	British Expeditionary Army
		After the Boer War, the British war minister, Richard Haldane, created the British Expeditionary Army (BEF), in case it was necessary to take part in a foreign war.
		A Third Army was created in July 1915 and a Fourth Army in March 1916.
		The army mobilisation proclamation was signed on the same day as the declaration of war against Germany - Tuesday, August 4.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWbef.htm (541 words)

	UT DISCOVERY MAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Allies' deception plan to mislead the Germans about the time, place and strength of the Normandy invasion was codenamed Fortitude.
		Fortitude North threatened the Germans with a fictitious attack on Scandinavia by the British Fourth Army.
		On a larger scale, Fortitude South persuaded the Germans that the "real" attack would be made by the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) in the Pas de Calais rather than in Normandy.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/discovery/disc1997v14n2/disc-art01.html (100 words)

	British begin dismantling Northern Ireland bases
		The British army has begun closing or tearing down some of its military installations in the Irish Republican Army's rural stronghold, in response to the militant group's pledge to disarm.
		Electronic surveilance equipment is hauled away as a British army watchtower in northern Ireland is dismantled.
		The start of the military withdrawal makes good on a British pledge as talks continue to create a regional government to replace the moderate coalition that collapsed in 2002.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/07/29/british-army-ira-050729.html (1259 words)

	Light Infantry
		The modern Regiment is one of the most operationally experienced in the British Army.
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		The Battalion attacked and seized all its objectives and was able to exploit forward and later hold further ground against repeated counter attacks.
	www.army.mod.uk /lightinfantry (928 words)

	2nd Battle of Albert
		General Sir Julian Byng and the British Third Army moved forward on 21st August.
		Counter-attacks by the German Second Army halted the advance that afternoon, but Sir Henry Rawlinson and the British Fourth Army, to the south of Byng, was brought forward
		Bapaume was taken on 29th August and during the next four days British forces were able to move up to the Hindenburg Line.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWalbert2.htm (201 words)

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