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An invasion scare in 1859 led to the emergence of the Volunteer Movement, and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs) began to be organised throughout Great Britain.On 30 September 1859 the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Yorkshire West Riding RVCs were formed at Sheffield, and on 22 December that year they were grouped into a battalion as the Hallamshire RVC (officially the 2nd (Hallamshire) Yorkshire West Riding RVC ...
Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
Prior to the Crimean War, the British military (i.e., land forces) was made up of multiple separate forces, with a basic division into the Regular Forces (including the British Army, composed primarily of cavalry and infantry, and the Ordnance Military Corps of the Board of Ordnance, made up of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and the Royal Sappers and Miners though not including the ...
War of the Austrian Succession (1742–48) - Great Britain, Austria and the Dutch Republic v. France and Germany; Seven Years' War (1756–63) - the first "world war" French and Indian War & Seven Years' War is the same War (1754–63) - Great Britain, Hanover, Portugal, and Prussia; Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–63) - Britain v. Cherokee nation
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Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and exited the war a year before it had ended due to financial trouble; Russian Allied victory: Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe. Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1701 1714 War of the Spanish Succession: England (until 1707)