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	British Army - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today the Army is one of the most technologically advanced land forces in the world, and is deployed in many of the world's war zones as part of a fighting force, and in United Nations peacekeeping forces.
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/British_Army (2487 words)

	British Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British Army is the land armed forces of the United Kingdom.
		The British Army did not exist as separate entity before the Act of Union of 1707 which united England and Scotland but its origins date back to aftermath of the English Civil War.
		Before the Civil War the army raised as required by the King who warrant gentlemen to raise companies this being direct throwback to the feudal concept of fief where a lord had to raise certain quota of knights men at arms and yeomanry.
	www.freeglossary.com /British_Army (1469 words)

	British Second Army (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British and American parachute troops were landed to capture vital bridges over several rivers in order to allow the Allied troops to cross the Rhine and advance into Germany.
		After the failure of the operation, Second Army spent the rest of the year exploiting the salient that it had created to close up to the Rhine and Meuse rivers in Holland.
		Second Army reached the Weser on 4 April, the Elbe on 19 April on by 7 May the Soviet Army had met up with the British forces and the shore of the Baltic Sea had been reached.
	british-second-army.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (712 words)

	1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British Empire casualties to November 1944 are announced as 282,162 killed, 80,580 missing, 386,374 wounded and 294,438 captured.
		The British Second Army is fighting in the outskirts of Bremen.
		The British Second Army arrest Himmler (in disguise) at Bremervorde.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945western.asp (2849 words)

	The British Army
		British Generals seemed to stumble from one catastrophe to the next while the Axis was triumphant in every theatre.
		The fact that the United States Army was able to mobilise so many men, deploy so many Infantry and Armored Divisions is often used to diminish the efforts and sacrifices of the British soldier during the war.
		The British Army also deployed a host of irregular formations, Special Forces in today's jargon, foremost of which was the Commando.
	www.bayonetstrength.150m.com /British/british_army.htm (655 words)

	British Army -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 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)

	Combat History of the 8th ID in WW2: Chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British units, after crossing the Elbe northwest of the XVIII Corps, were to drive northeast to Wismar, cutting off the Danish peninsula.
		British troops, which had crossed the Elbe at 0200 on the previous day, were advancing rapidly against light resistance.
		Vehicles of all kinds, both army and civilian, were picked up—many of them to be later used in the transport of displaced persons and recaptured Russian prisoners of war from the Division area toward their homes.
	www.techwarrior.cx /~roliver/8th/8th-chapter8.htm (1267 words)

	British Second Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British, Polish and American parachute troops were landed to capture vital bridges over several rivers in order to allow the Allied troops to cross the Rhine and advance into Germany.
		After the failure of the operation, Second Army spent the rest of the year exploiting the salient that it had created to close up to the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands.
		Second Army reached the Weser on 4 April, the Elbe on 19 April, the shore of the Baltic Sea at Lübeck on 2 May.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Second_Army (702 words)

	The British Army - Bibliography
		For the student of the British army in the American Revolution, the chief value of the Admiralty Papers lies in the data which they contain regarding the transportation and convoying of troops and supplies from England to America.
		Hadden was an officer of the artillery in Burgoyne's army in 1777.
		The main emphasis of this well-known work is laid upon the history of the British army during the middle ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
	www.americanrevolution.org /britisharmy8.html (5029 words)

	World War II - MSN Encarta
		On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the day of invasion for Overlord, the U.S. First Army, under General Omar N. Bradley, and the British Second Army, under General Miles C. Dempsey, established beachheads in Normandy (Normandie), on the French channel coast.
		Although Army Group Center was holding Belorussia—the only large piece of Soviet territory still in German hands—and although signs of a Soviet buildup against the army group multiplied in June, they did not believe it was in real danger.
		Meanwhile, on August 15, American and French forces had landed on the southern coast of France east of Marseille and were pushing north along the valley of the Rhône River.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563737_11/World_War_II.html (980 words)

	British Army: 1939-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Normandy, British, Isles, Inshore, Thane, Manners, Walpole, Icarus, Amethyst, Hart, Peacock, Starling, HMS
		Meanwhile the British 21st Army Group was to move south from Caen on Falaise, the British Second Army on the right and Canadian First Army on the left.
		British 21st Army Group, which in addition to the British and Canadian Armies had the US Ninth temporarily attached, began its moves on the 8th.
		At the beginning of the month, the British 21st and US 12th Army Groups were still trying to reach the west bank and by the 10th stand along most of its length from Nijmegen down to Koblenz.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsWFront1944.htm (6312 words)

	British Army in Bermuda from 1776 to 1977
		It was the first regular British regiment to establish in Bermuda and began from that day on a series of postings of regiments or units that lasted until 1953.
		When the Governor of the period ordered British soldiers to seek a fresh water supply for the poor of Pembroke Parish and their cattle during a prolonged drought, the Black Watch was the first to volunteer and dug so thoroughly the facility still exists today.
		On Sunday, 24 March 1878 at 4:30 pm, as reported in the British domestic and Bermuda newspapers, the British warship, HMS Eurydice, bound from Bermuda to the United Kingdom, sank en route, from particularly heavy adverse weather.
	www.bermuda-online.org /britarmy.htm (5280 words)

	Newspaper Clippings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the Ninth Army's flank the British Second Army, paced by three armored divisions, was sweeping deeper across the north German plain, and was 50 miles beyond the Rhine,
		The German radio said that British Second Army troops have crossed the Dortmund Ems canal, a 170 mile waterway which connects Dortmund and the industrial Ruhr with the river Ems, and had established a bridgehead on the east bank.
		This breakthrough, it was disclosed \, is paced by the battle-tested Second Armored Division of veterans of Africa, Sicily, and Italy.
	members.cox.net /gregwest982/newspaper.html (686 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 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)

	Second Army Operations
		At first this army was made up from divisions which were worn out and in most instances decimated in the fighting on the Meuse-Argonne front.
		Regular Army unit which was under fire for the first time, two companies of the Fifty-sixth Infantry took by assault the formidable Preny Ridge, a key position.
		Troops of this outfit which was operating with the Second Colonial Corps (French) made a strong raid to clear two small woods in the Plain of the Woevre.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/2ndarmy.htm (1723 words)

	The British Military Garrison in Ireland - British Army
		The British Army, comprising regular English, Scottish and Welsh regiments and the locally-recruited RIR, maintains a massive garrison across the Six Counties.
		The British Army maintains a full operational presence in all of these and in the other Divisional and Subdivisional Commands, which are all in effect heavily-fortified military bases.
		From 1985 onwards the British Army have bullt a wall of surveillance towers with attached bunker and garrison facilities which dominate the South Armagh landscape.
	sinnfein.org /bmgii/barmy.html (830 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: The Organization of the German Army, August 1914
		The German Army of 1914 went to war armed with the reputation of more than 60 years of victorious campaigns from the 19th and early 20th Century.
		The British Army equivalent was the Territorial force.
		The failure to break the deadlock with massive frontal assaults, the eventual lack of manpower to replace the enormously high casualties, and poor communications with divisional commanders and artillery support during battles, lead to innovative changes in the organization of the infantry regiment.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfgarmy.htm (1555 words)

	Operation MARKET-GARDEN
		The operation was an airborne attack deep in the enemy's rear areas to be launched in mid-September 1944 in conjunction with a ground attack by the British Second Army.
		The 6th Army Group, arriving from southern France, was at the point of uniting with the Third Army to create a unified Western Front that would stretch from Antwerp to Switzerland.
		The British and the Canadians, the latter scheduled to invest the Channel ports, were to push directly through Flanders, a region earlier ruled out for major advance by the planners because of its many water barriers.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_19.htm (5259 words)

	BRITISH SECOND ARMY, 11th November 1918
		Second Army was the most northerly of the British armies in France, and had been part of the Army Group commanded by the King of the Belgians since 26
		November the ten mile front of the Army, between Voorde and Lessines, was occupied by X and XIX Corps, with II Corps and XV Corps in reserve.
		The Corps was the left-hand corps of Second Army with 41
	www.orbat.com /site/history/historical/uk/secondarmy1918.html (707 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Charles Harington
		General Charles 'Tim' Harington (1872-1940) served as Herbert Plumer's capable Chief of Staff while the latter commanded the British Second Army, most notably at Messines.
		Although Plumer is generally credited with the meticulous care and attention paid to the preparation of Second Army assaults, much of the work was in fact overseen by Harington.
		Popular with the press corps as much as with his chiefs for the clarity of his briefings, Harington saw out the remainder of the war as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff to Sir Henry Wilson.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/harington.htm (230 words)

	British Army Records of the Second World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the actual service records for servicemen of the Second World War are not available there are records available that I can search to gain further information on an individuals service.If he or she was awarded a Gallantry award or Honour or example.
		Also if the unit is know I can obtain details of the actions in which they were involved in as well as their movements during service.
		All awards for Gallantry and Honours such as the Order of the British Empire and British Empire Medal were published in the London Gazette.
	www.btinternet.com /~lawrence.woodcock/army_3945.htm (426 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: April
		In the battle of Berlin, the Soviet armies are tightening their grip and are slowly advancing toward the center of the city.
		April 28th, 1940: British and French forces that were landed on the coast of Norway are evacuated by the Royal Navy.
		April 29th, 1945: The British Second Army crosses the Elbe at Lauenburg, 20 miles E of Hamburg, and advances toward Schwerin and Wismar in Mecklenburg.
	www.feldgrau.com /april.html (2557 words)

	British Expeditionary Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		In December the British Expeditionary Army was divided into the First and Second Army.
		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)

	Main Battle Tank: Challenger 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The superb Challenge 2 (CR2) is the British Army’s Main Battle Tank.
		CR2 is based on the Challenger 1 that served with distinction on operations in the Gulf War and the Balkans.
		Only 5 per cent of Challenger 2 components are interchangeable with its predecessor; over 150 major modifications include a completely new turret, L30 CHARM 120mm gun and second generation Chobham armour.
	www.army.mod.uk /equipment/av/av_ch2.htm (214 words)

	British Empire: Links: Army
		This is a very elegant and well-organised website charting the history of the British Army throughout this bloody confrontation.
		Bermuda is one of the oldest colonies of the British Empire and so it has a long and interesting history for the imperial historian.
		This site has some beautiful pictures and offers details on an aspect of the Imperial Army that can be difficult to find on the internet.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /resource/army.htm (580 words)

	eBay - Army British Second, DVD, HD DVD Blu-ray, Militaria items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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