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The British Army during the Victorian era served through a period of great technological and social change.Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, and died in 1901. Her long reign was marked by the steady expansion and consolidation of the British Empire, rapid industrialisation and the enactment of liberal reforms by both Liberal and Conservative governments within Britain.
This Timeline of the British Army 1800–1899 lists the conflicts and wars the British Army were involved in. French Revolutionary Wars ended 1802; Second Anglo-Maratha War 1802–1805; Napoleonic Wars 1802–1813; War of 1812 1812-1815; Hundred Days 1815 (The return of Napoleon Bonaparte) Anglo-Nepalese War 1813–1816; Third Anglo-Maratha War ...
19th-century British Army personnel (8 C, 949 P) K. King's German Legion (44 P) M. Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War (29 P) R.
19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot - 1 Battalion; 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1799-1802; 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1804-1816; 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions in 1814; 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1804-1814
General Sir George Brown: British divisional commander during the Crimean War; Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Butler GCB, PC (Ire) (31 October 1838 – 7 June 1910) was an Irish 19th-century British Army officer, writer, and adventurer. He was Commander in Chief of British Forces in South Africa at the outbreak of the Boer War.
A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present (2008) Chandler, David, and Ian Beckett, eds. The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army (1994) Colley, Thomas. Always at War: British Public Narratives of War (U of Michigan Press, 2019) online review; Fortescue, J. W. A history of the British army (19v 1899–1930) online; Higham ...
19th-century history of the British Army (4 C, 26 P) 19th-century history of the Royal Navy (11 C, 36 P) A. Second Anglo-Afghan War (2 C, 8 P) Anglo-Burmese wars (3 C ...
19th-century British Army personnel (8 C, 949 P) 19th-century Royal Marines personnel (74 P) 19th-century Royal Navy personnel (15 C, 341 P) A.