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30 April 2009 – British Army withdraws from Iraq, Operation Telic continues mainly by Royal Navy personnel. 10 July 2009 – Five men from 9 Plt, C Coy, 2 RIFLES died and ten were wounded, over half of the entire patrol, in what was the worst casualty toll for a British foot patrol during the war in Afghanistan.
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The Time line of the British Army 1900–1999 lists the conflicts and wars the British Army were involved in. Boxer Rebellion ended 1901; Anglo-Aro War 1901–1902; Second Boer War ended 1902; World War I 1914–1918; Easter Rising 1916; Third Afghan War 1919; Irish War of Independence 1919–1921; World War II 1939–1945; Greek civil war 1946 ...
Military operations of World War I involving the United Kingdom ... Timeline of the British Army 1800–1899; ... (1945–1946) W.
An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). online; Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993). Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes.
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 ...
With violence escalating in India after the war, but with British financial power at a low ebb, large-scale military involvement was impossible. The Viceroy of India warned he needed a further seven army divisions to prevent communal violence if independence negotiations failed.
The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and world wars. From the late 17th century until the mid-20th century, the United Kingdom was the greatest economic and imperial power in the world, and although this dominance was principally achieved through the strength of the Royal Navy (RN ...