Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
History
Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
Jersey, 1781--Rodney's Victory of April 12, 1782--The
Glorious First of June, 1794--St. Vincent--Fishguard
--Copenhagen--New Zealand--Abyssinia--Ashantee 360-377
CHAPTER XXIV
BATTLE HONOURS FOR THE SECOND AFGHAN WAR
Afghanistan, 1878-1880--Ali Masjid--Peiwar Kotal--Charasiah
--Kabul, 1879--Ahmad Khel--Kandahar, 1880 378-392
CHAPTER XXV
BATTLE HONOURS FOR OPERATIONS ON THE NORTH-WEST INDIAN FRONTIER,
1895-1897
Defence of Chitral--Chitral--Malakand--Samana--Punjab
Frontier--Tirah 393-407
CHAPTER XXVI
BATTLE HONOURS FOR SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1902
Modder River--Defence of Ladysmith--Defence of Kimberley--Relief
of Kimberley--Paardeburg--Relief of Ladysmith--Medals granted
for the campaign--Decorations won regimentally--Casualties by
regiments 408-432
CHAPTER XXVII
MISSING BATTLE HONOURS
Sir A. Alison's Committee--General Ewart's Committee--Marlborough's
forgotten victories--Wellington's minor successes--Losses at Douai
--Peninsula, 1705--Gibraltar, 1727--Peninsula, 1762--Belleisle
--Dominica--Manilla--Cape of Good Hope, 1795--Indian Honours
--Pondicherry--Tanjore--Madras troops--An unrewarded Bombay
column--The Indian Mutiny--Punjab Frontier Force--Umbeyla
--Naval honours 433-453
APPENDICES:
I. EGYPT, 1884 454-455
II. DEFENCE OF KIMBERLEY 456-457
III. AMBOOR 458
IV. WAR MEDALS 459-462
INDEX 463-500
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH _Frontispiece_
THE COLOURS OF THE TANGIER REGIMENT,
1684 (NOW THE QUEEN'S ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGIMENT) _To face page_ 2
ROBERT, LORD CLIVE " 50
GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY " 124
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON " 192
THE COLOURS OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
(FORMERLY THE BOMBAY EUROPEANS) " 292
FIELD-MARSHAL COLIN CAMPBELL: LORD CLYDE " 324
THE COLOURS OF THE QUEEN'S ROYAL WEST
SURREY REGIMENT, 1902 (FORMERLY THE
TANGIER REGIMENT) " 424
MAPS
BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTHERN EUROPE " 13
BATTLEFIELDS IN SOUTHERN INDIA " 49
BATTLEFIELDS IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL " 182
BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTHERN INDIA " 406
INTRODUCTION
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