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	War Department (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War Department was the United Kingdom government department responsible for the supply of equipment to the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the pursuance of military activity.
		In February 1855 the offices of the Secretary of State for War, and Secretary at War were merged and the new department and became the War Department once again until in 1857 when it became the War Office.
		One aspect of the War Department's work was the supply of locomotives and rolling stock for use on railways in the United Kingdom, other parts of the British Empire, and in theatres of conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_Department_(UK) (357 words)

	British Forgeries of the Stamps and Banknotes of the Central Powers
		Unlike WWII where the British prepared brilliant parodies showing SS Leader Heinrich Himmler or Polish Governor Hans Frank in place of the Fuehrer, or pictured the French collaborator Laval as Satan whispering into the ear of the French leader Petain, in WWI the stamps were rather plain.
		Edith Cavell was a British nurse in German-occupied Belgium during the war.
		In the neighboring colony of British East Africa, the British forged the notes in an attempt to destroy the economy of the German colony.
	www.psywarrior.com /BritishForgeriesWWI.html (4019 words)

	War Department Steam Locomotives 1939 - 1945
		War Department Steam Locomotives 1939 - 1945
		Initially, the War Department asked the REC for second-hand locomotives to be used abroad.
		Requisitioned from the LMS by the War Department (51 locos).
	www.gregoriou.itgo.com /favorite_links.html (1059 words)

	Understanding Fourth Generation War - by William S. Lind
		This was war of line and column tactics, where battles were formal and the battlefield was orderly.
		War ceases to be a shoving contest, where forces attempt to hold or advance a "line;" Third Generation warfare is non-linear.
		They will wage war for many different reasons, not just "the extension of politics by other means." And they will use many different tools to fight war, not restricting themselves to what we recognize as military forces.
	antiwar.com /lind/index.php?articleid=1702 (3136 words)

	Is No News, Good News?: Media and the Gulf War
		The British marines took a mere handful of reporters to the war zone, and allowed their reports to be sent back to the United Kingdom only over marine radio--after being highly censored.
		Thus the Argentineans, the British public and even the British soldiers in the field were kept informed by a picture of the war agreeable to the British War Department and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Kruse, 24).
		The Gulf War was successful for the United States and her allies, this, like Vietnam was before it, will be used as a lesson to those going to war in the future...
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ma03/holmgren/papers/media.html (3103 words)

	The American Revolution (John Bull and Uncle Sam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1776, the British were committed to the view that Parliament must exercise unchallenged authority in all parts of the empire, including the power to tax Americans without their consent.
		The Revolution, concluded by a preliminary peace treaty in the fall of 1782, was, after the Civil War, the costliest conflict in American history in terms of the proportion of the population killed in service.
		British troops, sent to confiscate American arms and supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/british/brit-2.html (1994 words)

	Chapter 6: The War of 1812
		The British garrison of about 600 men, occupying a fortification about halfway between the town and the landing, was overwhelmed after sharp resistance, but just as the Americans were pushing through the fort toward the town, a powder magazine exploded, killing or disabling many Americans and a number of British soldiers.
		The conduct of the war in 1812 and 1813 revealed deficiencies in the administration of the War Department that would plague the American cause to the end.
		British control of Lake Ontario, won by dint of feverish naval construction during the previous winter, obliged the Secretary of War to recommend operations from Buffalo, but disagreement within the President's cabinet delayed adoption of a plan until June.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-06.htm (8946 words)

	Egypt: History - British Occupation Period
		Tawfik remained the khedive, the consular courts dealt justice, the administration was foreign and the British occupied the Citadel.
		The British resident minister was similar to the prime minister in England.
		The British were still in occupation, controlled most of the economic life and still controlled the canal.
	www.touregypt.net /hbritish.htm (1311 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Ernest Swinton
		Having served in Second Boer War (1899-1902), during which time he received the DSO medal, Swinton served in varied capacities prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914: as staff officer, in teaching positions, and as an official British historian of the Russo-Japanese War.
		Lord Kitchener, the War Minister, appointed Swinton the official British war correspondent on the Western Front; journalists were strictly barred from the battlefield.
		Swinton's necessarily anodyne accounts of the conduct of the war were personally vetted (and censored) by Kitchener prior to release to the press.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/swinton.htm (583 words)

	frontline: war in iraq \| PBS
		As the War in Iraq continues the first measures of its psychological toll are coming in.
		FRONTLINE marks the first anniversary of the Iraq War with a two-hour documentary investigation that recounts the key strategies, battles, and turning points of the war from both sides of the battlefield.
		Through firsthand accounts from many of the war's key participants—from strategists in Washington to the soldiers who actually fought the battles—"The Invasion of Iraq" promises to be a definitive television history of America's most recent war.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/saddam (940 words)

	Iowa Ag History-War Effort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the beginning of the Civil War, around 1861, America was still basically an agricultural nation.
		The War Department placed a heavy drain upon agriculture, demanding more than 1.5 million horses and 250,000 mules.
		After the war, a new wheat belt from Ohio to Iowa was developed, and it depended upon foreign markets and the world price of wheat.
	www.agriculture.state.ia.us /kids/war.htm (144 words)

	Colonel Campbell's Canadian Indian Department
		The Iroquois Confederacy started the war neutral and ended it driven from their ancestral lands, bitterly attacked by the Continental Congress and largely betrayed by the British, yet paradoxically victorious in the field.
		In the main, however, as the war progressed, the far-sighted and conservative diplomats of the First Nations chose to support the cause of a distant British king over the close and voracious, land grabbing rebellion.
		Throughout the war, members of the Indian Department were constantly in the field - scouting, providing courier services, guiding Loyalist refugees to their new homes in Canada, and striking at Rebel logistics throughout the Province of New York.
	www.csmid.com /indiandepartment.html (755 words)

	How Bertrand Russell and the British Created the New Dark Age
		The so-called Opium Wars of 1839-42 and 1856-58, in which the Chinese failed to stop the importation of this British scourge were the eventual result.
		The British Empire emerged from the unprecedented destruction of WWI at the height of its power, having seized valuable territory such as Palestine and Iraq from the Ottoman allies of Germany, and having gained control of the majority of the world's oil.
		MacArthur ultimately confounded British schemes by fighting a masterful flanking war in the Pacific and achieving perhaps the greatest victory with the greatest economy of life in the history of warfare.
	www.geocities.com /thomas_rooney2001/Dark.html (8350 words)

	Board of Ordnance: War Department Fleet (Britain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The incorrect crest was to become the badge on the ensign of the Submarine Mining Service, and the revised crest the badge on the ensign of the Royal Engineers.
		Due to its poor performance during the Crimea War the Board of Ordnance was dissolved in 1855, its ships becoming the War Department Fleet based at Woolwich, Portsmouth, Chatham and Devonport.
		The ensign remained unchanged until 1864, when British maritime flags were re-organised, and ensigns of Public Offices changed from Red to Blue.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb~fleet.html (1054 words)

	THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM
		Declaring war is not tantamount to making war - indeed, the Constitutional Convention specifically amended the working draft of the Constitution that had given Congress the power to make war.
		Of course the power to declare war involves the power to prosecute it by all means and in any manner in which war may be legitimately prosecuted.").
		Of the eight major wars fought by Great Britain prior to the ratification of the Constitution, war was declared only once before the start of hostilities.
	www.usdoj.gov /olc/warpowers925.htm (10388 words)

	War of 1812 at Sea -- USS Constitution captures HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812
		Her Commanding Officer, Isaac Hull, was eager to find and fight one of the several Royal Navy frigates then active off North America, and on 18 August an American privateer informed him that one might be found further south.
		The next afternoon, some 400 miles southeast of the British base at Halifax, a sail was sighted that turned out to be HMS Guerriere, one of the frigates that had fruitlessly pursued Constitution off New York a month earlier.
		For the rest of the 19th Century, long after the War of 1812 was over, America's Navy was credited with an effectiveness that went well beyond its usually modest size.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/war1812/atsea/con-guer.htm (1217 words)

	American Polar Bears: The American Expeditionary Force to Northern Russia
		Consequently an Allied force under British command was dispatched by sea and on August 3, 1918, seized the city of Archangel and drove the Bolshevik troops to the south of that place.
		The British government had previously urged the United States to contribute a contingent and as a result the War Department directed the Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces to send three battalions of infantry and three companies of engineers to join this Allied venture.
		Operating under British command, the American soldiers soon partieipated in the fighting, their first casualties occurring on September 16 in the general area to the south of Obozerskaya.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/p_bears.htm (655 words)

	Steam locomotives of British Railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British Railways (BR) inherited a number of locomotives from its constituent "Big Four" companies, the vast majority of which were steam locomotives.
		British Railways was created in 1948 by the merger of the big four grouped railway companies; the Great Western Railway (GWR), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the Southern Railway (SR).
		In addition, two types purchased from the British War Department following their use during World War II on railways in Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steam_locomotives_of_British_Railways (993 words)

	Civil War Explorer > Who Fought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The tragedy of the Civil War is summed up in the phrase “brother against brother.” Northern soldiers and Southern soldiers were very much alike—from their backgrounds, to their education, to their courage and loyalty.
		It was not until May 22, 1863 that the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops enabling fl men to serve as soldiers.
		Black men served the Confederate forces throughout the war as body servants, laborers, and in construction of fortifications.
	www.civilwar.org /cwe/AREA003.asp?9003004000000 (739 words)

	William Montague Browne (07 July 1827-28 April 1883)
		During the War Between the States, he served as Secretary of State (Ad Interim) from 01 February 1862 to 17 March 1862, and once Judah Philip Benjamin (06 August 1811-06 May 1884) took over the position, he was made Assistant Secretary of State on 21 March 1862.
		Remaining attached to Davis' staff until war's end, in early 1864 he was sent to Georgia to organize conscription efforts and later commanded a brigade in defense of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.
		Following the war, he worked as a lawyer, writer, and was Professor of History and Constitutional Law at University of Georgia in Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.
	www.csawardept.com /history/Cabinet/WMBrowne/index.html (233 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Dreadnought (1906-1922)
		From May 1916, Dreadnought was flagship of the 3rd Battle Squadron, based on the Thames to counter the threat of bombardment by German battlecruisers.
		In a British harbor, with a paddle tug alongside, circa 1906-07.
		By this time she had been fitted with shields for the 12-pounder guns atop her forward 12-inch gun turret and her main topmast had been eliminated.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-d/drednt9.htm (461 words)

	British Pattern 1876 Martini-Henry Socket Bayonet
		This is a socket bayonet manufactured from the period beginning 1876 and used into the early 1900s.
		They are typically British in design in that they have a blade "shoulder" and are shallow fullered, whereas American bayonets of the period were without a shoulder and had very deep fullers that extended out the back of the blade.
		These are attached by fitting them over the barrel muzzle, and fastened into position by means of a mortise slot and locking ring.
	www.arms2armor.com /Bayonets/mh1876.htm (317 words)

	Civil War Uniforms Cut Stencils
		War Department* Stencils appeared on British goods that were bought by the Confederacy.
		This symbol appeared on any British army surplus - many items of which were sold the the South during the war.
		There is a picture of an original War* Department Stencil in Don Troiani's REGIMENTS AND UNIFORMS OF THE CIVIL WAR pg.
	www.civilwaruniforms.net /campstencils.htm (356 words)

	Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The confrontation between British troops and the Massachusetts militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775, marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
		During the 1890s, the War Department prepared "compiled" military service records for the volunteer soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
		Two fires destroyed the earliest Revolutionary War pension application records: the fire of 1800 in the War Department, and the fire of 1814 in the Treasury Department.
	www.gfo.org /revwar.htm (1633 words)

	More British fakery and skullduggery on the issue of war with Iraq
		The humiliations being suffered by the British propagandists for war only increased, when it was revealed by U.N. nuclear inspectors that so called 'evidence' by British Intelligence that Saddam was trying to import the ingredients for a nuclear bomb were also faked.
		The British government was also involved secretly in the building of another plant which they knew to be of the kind used to manufacture mustard gas, which was also used on Iranian soldiers.
		What is worse, the British government also provided financial backing for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, and the British tax payers winded up coughing up three hundred thousand pounds by the end of it all.
	www.awitness.org /journal/british_fake_iraq_evidence.html (617 words)

	CNN.com - State Department memo warned of post-war 'planning gaps' - Aug 18, 2005
		In the memo, which was addressed to State Department Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky, the authors said they had "raised these issues with top CENTCOM officials" and offered to provide technical assistance to help the military "develop plans for accomplishing these goals."
		The three department officials listed as authors of the memo were Lorne Craner, Arthur Dewey and Paul Simons.
		The Defense Select Committee, which scrutinizes the work of Britain's Ministry of Defense, said that Britain failed to plan adequately for the end of the war, and "squandered Iraqi goodwill" by being slow to stop looting.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/08/18/state.dept.iraq/index.html (388 words)

	British Military Issue LONGINES "Greenlander" Wrist Watch. c.1953
		This very sought after model has become known within watch collecting circles as the "Greenlander" as it was specially developed to be used by the British armed forces taking part in the British North Greenland Expedition between 1952 and 1954.
		Inside of case stamped with the British military marks : "British War Department arrow, "W.W.W" (Wrist Watch Waterproof), "23088 - 910" (the same marks would have originally been repeated on the outside of the case, but at sometime have been polished off).
		The British North Greenland Expedition was a major military exercise held between July 1952 and July 1954.
	www.cjbalm.com /watches/watch323.htm (206 words)

	Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The temple known as the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and 432 BC.
		K. Kouzeli and E. Papaconstantinou: "Observations on the Parthenon Frieze in The British Museum"
		Mantis: "Observations on the Parthenon Sculpture in The British Museum"
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /gr/grparth.html (228 words)

	War Department Finished View Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The British War Department's Acceptance, or "Finished View Mark" is one of the most commonly seen marks on a military Martini-Henry.
		There are two variations of the War Department's Finished View Mark.
		A Birmingham area War Department Finished View Mark on the tumbler of a Martini-Henry.
	www.martinihenry.com /wdaccept.htm (294 words)

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