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Great Britain. British Army
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Royal Army
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British Army.
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Whitmore was govenor of Cape Breton Island and the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island).
Administrative history unavailable. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire military papers.
The King's American Regiment was formed at Flat Bush, New York, under the command of Colonel Edmund Fanning (1739-1818), on December 11, 1776. The regiment was comprised of Loyalists from New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and was stationed at Kingsbridge for much of 1777. On October 6, 1777, the regiment participated in attacks at Forts Clinton and Montgomery under General Henry Clinton. In 1778 and 1779, the corps carried out attacks in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and in 1780 they were sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to join the Southern Campaign. They spent the winter of 1781 in Savannah, Georgia, and returned to New York in December 1782, when the British evacuated Charleston. The regiment became part of the 4th American Regiment on March 7, 1781, and disbanded in 1783.
In 1776, the British formed a treaty with the duke of Brunswick and other minor German princes that allowed the hiring of German mercenaries to bolster the British Army in North America. These German Auxiliaries muster rolls document the German regiments employed by the British to fight in the American Revolutionary War. England would pay the German princes annual subsidies, as well as additional fees, for wounded and killed soldiers. All together, approximately 30,000 men came to America from Germany and fought for the British in virtually every major campaign in the war.
Sunbury was once the county seat of Liberty County, Georgia. It was founded in 1758 and was a thriving seaport, rivaling Savannah's port. In 1779 the town the adjacent Fort Morris were attacked and captured by British soldiers led by Col. John Harris Cruger. Col. John McIntosh, leader of the Continental troops, surrendered the town and the fort; in total, seventeen commissioned officers and 195 non-commissioned officers and privates were taken as prisoners of war. The town and fort, renamed Fort George, remained under British control until the end of the Revolutionary War. At the time of the British evacuation, most of the town and fort had been burned. Sunbury failed to thrive after the war, and by 1878 was named one of the "dead towns" of Georgia.
Bourn (1694-1763) was from Barnstable; he served as captain in the regiment of Colonel John Thomas.
Photograph album of Capt. R. E. Godfrey, containing 167 black/white snapshots, many with captions, recording service with the British 153rd Rifles in North Africa, 1918-1919, and in the Arab Revolt, 1920. About 70 of the images are from Egypt and surrounding areas (Suez Canal, Ismailia, Great Pyramids, Alexandria, Kantara, Mansourah). The approximately 30 Arab Revolt images are from Iraq (Nasiriyah, Imam Abdullah, Kut, Baghdad). Most images are of British and Indian officers and troops, barracks, camp life, along with some of the countryside and city scenes. Also interspersed are a few images with friends back in Great Britain and apparently on vacation elsewhere in Europe, ca. 1921-1922.
The Charles Cornwallis orderly book documents events in the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, particularly in North Carolina and Virginia, from February 8, 1781-July 13, 1781. Many of the orders were issued by Charles Cornwallis (1738--1805), a British lieutenant-general during American Revolution. In February 1781, Cornwallis and his army were in pursuit of the American Army of the South under General Nathanael Greene. Both armies were stationed in North Carolina but avoided engagement until March 15 at the battle at Guilford Court House. Though the British won the battle, they failed to defeat Greene and suffered heavy casualties. By May 10th, Cornwallis had moved his army to Virginia, and on May 20th, he took control of the British Army in that state. Cornwallis then pursued Lafayette's army through Virginia but failed to engage them in a decisive battle. Cornwallis' army arrived in Richmond, Virginia, on June 17th and moved to Jamestown in early July. They faced the Americans on July 6th, in the Battle of Green Spring, near Jamestown, Virginia, but this too was an indecisive encounter. Cornwallis next moved to defend the British held Yorktown, where he was forced to surrender on October 19th, 1781.
Sir Henry Clinton was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America, 1778-1782. Captain Simon Fraser was the commander of the Corps of Guides and Pioneers, one of the American loyalist units of the British Army.
Sir William Howe (1729-1814) was the British commander-in-chief in North America from October 1775 to 1777. Taking over the office from Thomas Gage, he concentrated the British army around New York City, and in 1776, fought the rebels at Long Island, Kip's Bay, White Plains, and Fort Washington, eventually forcing the American troops out of the area. The British, however, lost battles at Trenton (December 1776) and Princeton (January 1777). In September of 1777, Howe and his forces moved into Pennsylvania, where they were victorious at the Battle at Brandywine (September 11, 1777). Focusing on Pennsylvania, however, came at the expense of supporting Burgoyne's army at Saratoga, where the British forces surrendered to the Continental troops on October 17, 1777. Under severe criticism, Howe submitted his resignation to London at the end of 1777, and in May 1778 transferred his command to Sir Henry Clinton. During this period of inactivity, Howe's headquarters remained in Philadelphia.
During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both pro-Allied and anti-Axis propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of the occupied countries.
The Psychological Warfare Division was a joint effort between the United States and Great Britain, and conducted similar operations during and following D-Day, 1944.
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