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The Articles of War are a set of regulations drawn up to govern the conduct of a country's military and naval forces. [1] The first known usage of the phrase is in Robert Monro's 1637 work His expedition with the worthy Scot's regiment called Mac-keyes regiment etc. (in the form "Articles of warres") and can be used to refer to military law in general.
The English Army was a creation of an independent England, and was reestablished when at war with other states, but it was not until the Interregnum and the New Model Army (raised by Parliament to defeat the Royalists in the English Civil War) that England acquired a peacetime professional standing army.
Another battle often noted for being a victory against all odds was the Battle of Agincourt (1415), [10] [11] which saw a depleted English army, led by King Henry V and composed of 5,000 to 8,000 longbowmen, achieve victory over a superior French army of 15,000 to 30,000 cavalry and heavy infantry; the English were outnumbered, possibly by as ...
The Confederates' War (1642-1648) English Civil War (1642–1651) First English Civil War (1642–1646) – 190,000 Englishmen died [3] Civil War in Scotland (1644–1647) Second English Civil War (1648) Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–53) – Cromwell killed 300,000 to 500,000 Irish in his invasion [3] Third English Civil War (1650–1651)
War of Jenkins' Ear: Spain: 23 October 1739 George II: Robert Walpole: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 18 October 1748. War of the Austrian Succession: France: 31 March 1744 Henry Pelham: Seven Years' War: France: 17 May 1756 Declaration on France: Thomas Pelham-Holles: Treaty of Paris, 10 February 1763. British victory. Spain: 4 January 1762 ...
The UK uses 10 principles of war, as taught to all officers of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force: The British Army's principles of war were first published after the First World War and based on the work of the British general and military theorist, J. F. C. Fuller. The definition of each principle has been refined over the ...
The Mutiny Act, altered in 1803, and the Articles of War defined the nature and punishment of mutiny until the latter were replaced by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act in 1879. This, in turn, was replaced by the Army Act in 1881. Today the Armed Forces Act 2006 defines mutiny as follows: [1]
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