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The Tudor-era saw a new stage of military development in Ireland with the creation of the Kingdom of Ireland.Figures such as Anthony St. Leger and Thomas Wolsey, as well as Henry VIII Tudor himself, favoured an assimilationist policy for Ireland of surrender and regrant, whereby the Gaelic Irish leaders would be brought into alliance with the English Crown, securing their lands on the ...
A platoon of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, pictured upon the outbreak of the First World War, 1914. Lieutenant Harold Alexander is seated seventh from the right.. The 1st Battalion, Irish Guards deployed to France, eight days after the United Kingdom had declared war upon the German Empire, as part of 4th (Guards) Brigade of the 2nd Division, and would remain on the Western Front for the ...
The Micks: The Story of the Irish Guards. Peter Davis. ISBN 0-432-18650-6. Johnstone, Thomas (1992). Orange and Green and Khaki: The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914–18. Dublin: Gill and MacMillen. ISBN 978-0-7171-1994-3. Harris, R. G. (1988). The Irish Regiments: A Pictorial History, 1683–1987. Tunbridge Wells, Kent ...
They were to help the overstretched RIC maintain control and suppress the Irish Republican Army (IRA), although they were less well trained in ordinary police methods. The nickname "Black and Tans" arose from the colours of the improvised uniforms they initially wore, a mixture of dark green RIC (which appeared black) and khaki British Army ...
Stele to the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot at the battlefield of Waterloo. The 27th Regiment served throughout the Napoleonic Wars including in Egypt where it formed part of Sir Ralph Abercromby's force that fought the Battle of Alexandria against the French in March 1801, the 2nd Battalion formed part of the garrison of that city after its capture.
The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) (which formed the 1st Battalion) and the 94th Regiment of Foot (which formed the 2nd Battalion) in July 1881.
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars; 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot; 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot; 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot; 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment) 101st Regiment of Foot (Duke of York's Irish) 152 (North Irish) Regiment RLC
The Oxford History of the British Army. Oxford University Press. Guy, Alan J. (1996). "The Irish military establishment 1660–1776". A Military History of Ireland. Thomas Bartlett & Keith Jeffery (eds.). Cambridge University Press. Holm, Richard (2002). Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. Harper Perennial. Houlding, J ...