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The Last Post Association uses both silver B♭ bugles and E♭ cavalry trumpets, with either British Army tradition being respected during services at the gate. The Last Post ceremony has now been held more than 30,000 times. On 9 July 2015, a ceremony titled A tribute to the tribute [8] took place to commemorate the 30,000th ceremony.
The British Army had been deployed in Northern Ireland in 1969, as events had become beyond the control of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. On the morning of Monday 9 August 1971, the security forces launched Operation Demetrius, the main focus of which was to arrest and intern suspected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Henry Allingham in 2007 "Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009.It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War, and was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on 30 July 2009, the date of Allingham's funeral.
The Battle of Lenadoon was a series of gun battles fought over a six day period from 9–14 July 1972 [1] between the Provisional IRA and the British Army.It started on Thursday, 9 July 1972 in and around the Lenadoon Avenue area and spread to other places in Belfast.
The opening British action was the Capture of Savannah, Georgia in December 1778. After repulsing an assault on Savannah by a combined Franco-American force in October 1779, the British planned to capture Charleston, South Carolina, intending to use the city as a base for further operations in the southern colonies. [2]
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The Zulu army suffered anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 killed. [21] [22] The battle was a decisive victory for the Zulus and caused the defeat of the first British invasion of Zululand. [23] The British Army had suffered its worst defeat against an indigenous foe equipped with vastly inferior military technology. [19]
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