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The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle Corps".
1759 – British forces, led by General James Wolfe, take French Quebec. [8] 1775 – American War of Independence begins. [9] 17 June – Battle of Bunker Hill [10] 1776 – British victory at the Battle of Long Island. [11] 1777 – British victory at the Battle of Brandywine. [12] 1777 – British defeat at the Battle of Saratoga. [13]
1st London VRC (City of London Volunteer Rifle Brigade) 5th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) 2nd London VRC: 6th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment, (City of London Rifles) 3rd London VRC: 7th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment: 24th Middlesex VRC: 8th (City of London) Bn, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
On 1 April 1947 it absorbed the duplicate 8th Battalion and was renamed the London Rifle Brigade, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). On 1 May 1960 it amalgamated with The Rangers, with the new unit going under the name London Rifle Brigade/Rangers, whose successor unit was part of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion Royal Green Jackets. This ...
The 13th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, (13th RB) was an infantry unit recruited as part of 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front from July 1915 until the Armistice , seeing action at the Somme where it was half-destroyed in its first attack, and later at the Ancre , at Arras and Ypres , against the German ...
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When the London Regiment was formally abolished it became the Tower Hamlets Rifles, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) in 1937, simply known as the Tower Hamlets Rifles (THR). With the doubling of the TA after the Munich Crisis , the THR formed a 1st and 2nd Battalion in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II (a 3rd Bn was also ...
Brown Bess musket – precursor to the early British rifles. The origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket.While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due to a lack of rifling and a generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading, it was cheap to produce and could be loaded quickly.