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Richard Holmes (military historian) Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, VR, JP (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), [1] known as Richard Holmes, was a British military historian. He was co-director of Cranfield University 's Security and Resilience Group from 1989 to 2009 and became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield in 1995.
War Walks is a BBC television documentary series presented by the historian Richard Holmes, then Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University.The series is about battlefields [1] (though it could be questioned whether the Blitz had a battlefield), [2] which are visited by Holmes, [3] and is also about the corresponding battles. [4]
29 July 2003. (2003-07-29) Rebels and Redcoats: How Britain Lost America is a British television documentary series about the story of the American Revolutionary War, presented and narrated by Richard Holmes, in four parts. Throughout the entire program there are clear explanations about the politics going on behind the scenes, the impact of ...
[11] Similarly the Library of Congress holds a long letter from Peter Cooper to President Johnson that quotes extensively from his "treason must be made odious" speeches and then comments, "After having read the many patriotic sayings and denunciations that you have made against Rebels and their Rebellion, I was led to believe that you would be ...
Palestinian professor Yousef Shandi quotes the Nuremberg trials, which upheld the right of self-defense of people against an enemy that "unrightfully" occupies territories. [49] But, Israeli professor Yoram Dinstein says that there is a widespread idea that civilians under military occupation have the right to forcibly resist the Occupying ...
Holmes focuses particularly on the lives and works of Sir Joseph Banks, the astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, and chemist Humphry Davy. Other profiles include African explorer Mungo Park . There is a chapter on the early history of ballooning including pioneers Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier , Vincent Lunardi , Jean-Pierre Blanchard ...
The novel implies that the Kurds from Syria, Turkey, and Iraq work together to force a war between the government of Turkey and Syria, with the eventual goal of being granted an individual territory. Injustices suffered by the Kurds at the hands of the governments of the nations they live in. Volatility of Middle-East region, both politically ...
The Curragh incident of 20 March 1914, sometimes known as the Curragh mutiny, occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. The Curragh Camp was then the main base for the British Army in Ireland, which at the time still formed part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Ireland was scheduled to receive a measure of devolved ...