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In 1908, the Yeomanry and Volunteer Force were merged to create the Territorial Force (changed to Territorial Army after the First World War), with terms of service similar to the army and Militia, and the Militia was renamed the Special Reserve, [244] [245] [246] After the First World War the Special Reserve was renamed the Militia, again, but permanently suspended (although a handful of Militia units survived in the United Kingdom, its colonies, and the Crown Dependencies). Although the Territorial Force was nominally still a separate force from the British Army, by the end of the century, at the latest, any unit wholly or partly funded from Army Funds was considered part of the British Army. Outside the United Kingdom-proper, this was generally only the case for those units in the Channel Islands or the Imperial fortress colonies ( Nova Scotia, before Canadian confederation; Bermuda; Gibraltar; and Malta). [247] [248] [249] In addition to battling the armies of other European empires (and its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812), [60] the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars [41] and the Boxer Rebellion, [42] Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, [43] Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, [46] the Boers in the first and second Boer Wars, [46] Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids [47] and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War. [41] The increasing demands of imperial expansion and the inadequacy and inefficiency of the underfunded British Army, Militia, Ordnance Military Corps, Yeomanry and Volunteer Force after the Napoleonic Wars led to series of reforms following the failures of the Crimean War. [61] Japan Self-Defense Force | Defending Japan". Defendingjapan.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-16 . Retrieved 2014-08-03.

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. As of 1July2023, [update] the British Army comprises 76,225 regular full-time personnel, 4,139 Gurkhas, 26,755 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,532 "other personnel", for a total of 111,651. [8] An Act to regulate the militia of this province and to repeal the acts now in force for that purpose [microform]: assented to 19th of May, 1855". Archive.org. S. Derbyshire and G. Desbarats . Retrieved 26 March 2020.Part of British Forces Gibraltar: The Army has had a presence in Gibraltar for more than 300 years. The people of Gibraltar took up arms as the Gibraltar Volunteer Corps from 1915 to 1920 and again as the Gibraltar Defence Force shortly before the outbreak of WW2. This force later became the Royal Gibraltar Regiment, which remains as the only formed Army unit in Gibraltar. [188]

a b "Operation Banner: An analysis of military operations in Northern Ireland" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008 . Retrieved 21 March 2008. Main articles: British Army during the American Revolutionary War, British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, and British Army during the Victorian Era NATO Enhanced Forward Presence: The British Army deploys approximately 900 troops to Estonia and 150 to Poland as part of its commitment to NATO. [179]Another type of reserve force was created during the period between the French Revolution and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Called Fencibles, these were disbanded after the Napoleonic Wars and not raised again, although the Royal Malta Fencible Regiment, later the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery, existed from 1815 until the 1880s when it became the Royal Malta Artillery, [240] and the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps was formed in 1846. [241] [242]

The battle is brought alive and given an immediacy unique among medieval conflicts by the Bayeux Tapestry. This tells the story of the events from 1064 to the end of the battle in a sequence of pictorial scenes. The tapestry was probably made soon after the conquest for William’s half-brother Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who features prominently in it. Heyman, Charles (2009). The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2010–2011. Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-84884-084-3.Army Estimates – 12 March 1970". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Hansard – House of Commons. 12 March 1970. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 5 July 2016. Rigby, Neil (10 November 1988). "1988 Military Uniforms of Bermuda". Archived from the original on 27 October 2020 . Retrieved 24 April 2021. Peter Burroughs, "An Unreformed Army? 1815–1868", in David Chandler, ed., The Oxford History of the British Army (1996), pp. 183–84

Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942". National Archives of Australia: Documenting a Democracy. Archived from the original on 16 July 2005 . Retrieved 8 August 2005. UK Armed Forces Quarterly Manning Report (PDF). United Kingdom: Ministry of Defence. 4 March 2010. p.13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014 . Retrieved 5 July 2016. (Table 2a – Strength of UK Armed Forces1a b The Militia Artillery 1852–1909, by Norman EH Litchfield. The Sherwood Press (Nottingham) Ltd. 1987 Holmes, Richard (2011). Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoat to Dusty Warriors. HarperCollins. Main articles: British Army during the First World War and British Army during the Second World War British First World War Mark I tank; the guidance wheels behind the main body were later scrapped as unnecessary. Armoured vehicles of the era required considerable infantry and artillery support. (Photo by Ernest Brooks) Led by their piper, men of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (part of the 46th (Highland) Brigade), advance through Normandy during Operation Epsom on 26 June 1944 Correlli Barnett, Britain and her army, 1509–1970: a military, political and social survey (1970) pp. 90–98, 110–25.